Intorduction

[Bryan Vest <mu...@gmail.com>]

I came into this group with out really an introduction.
I rarely send email that is not needed.
I have been interested in computers/electronics/software since 1986 when I
received a Commodore 64 for my birthday and never stopped.

I started professionally working with computers in 1994 at a mom and pop
shop. Gradually worked my way up to where I am now overt the next 20 years.

My first foray to Linux was Redhat 5.1 Manhattan around 1998. After I
figured out how cool it was I never looked back but for me its more about
the kernel than the distro.

I run many machines at home with different OS's. Combinations of Ubuntu,
CentOS, OSX, Windows, OpenBSD. Some are hard machines some are VM's. All
for testing different things here and there.

I have been deeply into SA since 2004 since I handle most of the mail admin
functions on our server farm. We have changed mail systems twice since I
have been with this employer but they all use pieces of SA here ant there.
Not to mention our reversed SA for outbound scoring. It does not stop or
bounce mail just scores it and postfix header routing routes the mail out
the appropriate server depending on what the SA score was.

Besides the Apache SA project I am also interested in Lucene, Hadoop,
Spark, and other AI/Distributed computing projects.

Now just let me get up to speed with this group and let me know what needs
to be done and I will happily jump in.

--Bryan Vest

Re: Intorduction

[Dave Jones <da...@apache.org>]

For my introduction, I have been computing since college in '88. 
Started out as a Master CNE in Novell Netware and really looked forward 
to Unixware taking over the world but that flopped.  I switched to a 
Microsoft MCSE for a few years until going full time as an 
AIX/UNIX/Linux admin in 2003.  I had been playing with Slackware Linux 
since '93 when you had to rawwrite your stack of floppies to install it.  :)

I am primarily a RedHat EL/CentOS guy.  I run Fedora as my main desktop 
and laptop.  Having to learn Ubuntu for this SA sysadmin work.  I do 
like some things about Debian but miss some things about CentOS 7.

I have been doing enterprise-level mail filtering for about 12 years and 
my primary experience with SpamAssassin is via MailScanner.  Recently I 
have setup iRedmail (http://www.iredmail.org) servers that use 
amavis-new.  I setup one to help with the nightly masscheck stuff.  I 
have a very old domain that has been retired but has a lot of email 
(mostly spam) pointed to it which is perfect for the masscheck stuff.

I work from home (Dallas, TX) for Education Networks of America that is 
based in Nashville, TN.  We are an MSP primarily for K12 and some higher 
ed all over the US.  My primary job responsibilities are team lead for 
the Systems Engineering group, mail relaying/filtering/archiving, DNS 
hosting for ENA and customers, domain registration management, SSL 
certficate management, server automation via Puppet and Salt, server 
backups, monitoring via Icinga, MySQL cluster replication, ...

My work/desk number is 615-312-6147 and cell is 972-357-5406.

On 05/08/2017 03:47 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> On 5/8/2017 3:36 PM, Bryan Vest wrote:
>> I came into this group with out really an introduction.
> Hi Brian, we're a small group.  You, me and David Jones.  I'm open to us 
> voting to add more but I feel good about the group now.
> 
> But a great idea for an introduction.  Quick Intro for me:  My name is 
> Kevin A. McGrail and many know me as KAM.  I've worked in computers my 
> entire life (see https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail/)
> 
> I started out helping the SpamAssassin project before it came to Apache 
> to help Justin because he was having issues with DNS stability.
> 
> Over the years, I helped out more and become the VP both unofficially 
> and officially for a few years.
> 
> Earlier than that, I started also with a C64 and then a C128 and an 
> Amiga 500 alongside a PC.  I used to run a BBS until the FBI decided 
> they didn't like me doing that.  I loved Unix the first time I saw it 
> actually starting on Vax and being introduced to MUDs.  I can type like 
> a madman just to keep up with scrolling text and orcs trying to kill me ;-)
> 
> My wireless is 703-798-0171 if it's ever needed.
> 
> Best, KAM
> 

Re: Intorduction

["Kevin A. McGrail" <km...@apache.org>]

On 5/8/2017 3:36 PM, Bryan Vest wrote:
> I came into this group with out really an introduction.
Hi Brian, we're a small group.  You, me and David Jones.  I'm open to us 
voting to add more but I feel good about the group now.

But a great idea for an introduction.  Quick Intro for me:  My name is 
Kevin A. McGrail and many know me as KAM.  I've worked in computers my 
entire life (see https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail/)

I started out helping the SpamAssassin project before it came to Apache 
to help Justin because he was having issues with DNS stability.

Over the years, I helped out more and become the VP both unofficially 
and officially for a few years.

Earlier than that, I started also with a C64 and then a C128 and an 
Amiga 500 alongside a PC.  I used to run a BBS until the FBI decided 
they didn't like me doing that.  I loved Unix the first time I saw it 
actually starting on Vax and being introduced to MUDs.  I can type like 
a madman just to keep up with scrolling text and orcs trying to kill me ;-)

My wireless is 703-798-0171 if it's ever needed.

Best, KAM

-- 
Kevin A. McGrail
Asst. Treasurer, Apache Software Foundation
Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project