Tuesday, July 30, 2002

Developer Jedi Masters Write....  Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler) is his long awaited book that's been evolving on his website for over a year. This book looks at design and architectural patterns of enterprise systems and discusses many practical implementations that can be built ranging from the quick and simple to very clever and scalable. [rebelutionary] 10:29:38 PM

Spam Escalation When I first installed SpamAssassin a couple of months ago, it worked great, catching about 99% of spam with only the occasional false positive (usually an automated emails generated by ecommerce sites). It was too good to last; today about 25% of the spam I receive is getting through again. It's really obvious that spammers are working around the SpamAssassin rules. SpamAssassin has one major design flaw: whenever it decides to flag a message as spam, it includes a detailed reason why, with exact scores. There's even a web page which might as well be titled Evading SpamAssassin. It takes about 5 minutes for a spammer to figure out how to avoid the filters. [Joel on Software] 11:17:48 AM