On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:17:40 MDT, Michael Loftis said:

> > If you're running spamassassin, and it's not stemming the flow of junk,
> > why would you be running it?  Presumably you'd *do* something with the
> > junk.
> 
> SpamAssassin doesn't though stop anything.  It just filters.  And stopping 
> it is not the same as filtering it.  Running SA is far more expensive CPU 
> wise and if you're doing network checks, network wise as well than ListServ.

Yes, SA only filters and tells you something about the mail (primarily, a score
that indicates how spammy it thinks the mail is).

My point was that if you're going to all the effort of feeding the junk through
SA, you should be then *using* the returned score to route junk into a quarantine
or something.  Feeding it through SA and then not *doing* something with the
returned information is just silicon-based navel-gazing....

If nothing is *using* that SA-assigned score, save a *lot* of resources and turn
SA off....