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Originally Posted by popowich

What exactly is it connecting to? Something along the lines of SpamAssassin?

Why would someone make themselves dependent on an external resource?

What happens to a new post of your service is not available?

I'm not bashing you, just trying to ask some educated questions.

If you'd rather PM details to me that is fine. Thanks!

-Raymond

It's connecting to Spamhaus, and if not available or overloaded, to alternate services. It has also a local database where known spammers are cached for some time.

If somebody was so badly spammed as some of my servers (hundreds of spammers and tens of thousands of posts), and any service would help me to get rid of them, I would choose it. I have made my research and found that nothing exists which compares to SpamAssasin, and so I coded the connection to those databases. Also I added some of the features I had already, such as the local spammer database and formal email checking. All together they do a really good job.

New posts are not affected, only new users.

Please feel free to ask, I will reply to all questions, all but the exact coding