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svn commit: rev 21479 - incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build
Author: quinlan
Date: Sat Jun 19 19:03:22 2004
New Revision: 21479

Modified:
incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build/3.0.0_change_summary
Log:
more tweaks based on comments from duncf


Modified: incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build/3.0.0_change_summary
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--- incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build/3.0.0_change_summary (original)
+++ incubator/spamassassin/trunk/build/3.0.0_change_summary Sat Jun 19 19:03:22 2004
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
*** THIS IS A PRE-RELEASE ONLY, NOT THE FINAL 3.0.0 RELEASE ***

-SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is released! SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is a major update
-and includes a number of new email and anti-spam technologies.
+SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is released! SpamAssassin 3.0.0 is a major update and
+includes a number of new email and anti-spam technologies.

SpamAssassin is a mail filter which uses advanced statistical and
heuristic tests to identify spam (also known as unsolicited bulk email).
@@ -9,22 +9,26 @@
Highlights of the release
-------------------------

- - SpamAssassin is now part of the Apache Software Foundation, bringing
- an improved and clearer software license, the 2.0 version of the
- Apache License.
+ - SpamAssassin is now part of the Apache Software Foundation, bringing an
+ improved and clearer software license, the 2.0 version of the Apache
+ License.

- We added a new architecture which allows third-parties to easily add
- plug-in modules.
+ plugin modules.

- - There is now SQL database support for both our Bayes and
- auto-whitelist subsystem, allowing more large sites to easily deploy
- SpamAssassin.
+ - There is now SQL database support for both the Bayes and auto-whitelist
+ subsystems, allowing more large sites to easily deploy SpamAssassin.

- - A more accurate simulation of email reader behavior improves our
- accuracy and is coupled with better detection and handling of spammer
- techniques.
+ - A more accurate simulation of email client handling of MIME and HTML
+ improves our accuracy. In addition, there is better detection and
+ handling of spammer techniques used to trick email clients and filters.
+
+ - Web sites contained within the message body can be checked against
+ network blocklists of domains that advertise with spam.
+
+ - SpamAssassin now includes support for SPF (the Sender Policy Framework,
+ http://spf.pobox.com/)

- - SpamAssassin now has support for SPF (the Sender Policy Framework).

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