The Linux community - nearly 29 million platform users - has been plagued for
years by spam which, according to industry statistics, is dramatically on the
rise. Despite relentless efforts to stop it (including billions of dollars
spent to develop anti-spam solutions), spam continues to infiltrate our
in-boxes every day. Not only does it cost consumers and businesses precious
time, money, and resources, but it also represents a huge security risk since
many spam sites infect individual computers and corporate networks with
viruses or spyware.
Unfortunately, existing anti-spam solutions don't solve this grave problem,
but try to hide it. These solutions are reactive and merely try to filter
spam after it arrives in the user's mailbox. This passive method of defence
does... (more)