From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-09-21T04:03:51+09:00
Subject: Re: POP3Filter for SoBig.F Virus:

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 02:07:44 +0900, Xavier Noria wrote:
> On Saturday 20 September 2003 18:56, Jose Quesada wrote:
>> Can you post a link to the original code? It would be neat to compare
>> perl and ruby code for the same task.
> Well, the original code was the first dirty iteration I wrote in a hurry
> because my mailbox was being flooded by minutes. I shared it because of
> the thread in case it could be helpful to anyone else.
> 
> I have cleaned it up a bit since then, factored it, and added interactive
> and nonstop modes:
> 
> http://www.hashref.com/prj/pop3filter/pop3filter.pl
> 
> I think that's a more appropiate version for a fair comparison.

Agreed. I hope no one thinks that I was saying your version wasn't good 
enough. I just didn't want to have to verify if I had Net::POP3 in Perl (I'm 
pretty sure I do, since it's the ActiveState version) and so I made the Ruby 
version based on what you wrote. It was good for what it did, but I found 
that it missed a number of the messages (naturally, because it had fewer 
regexp), and the main reason for making the change is I didn't want to 
answer yes on EACH message.

At any rate, I think they're both highly usable. At some point, I think that 
I'll set up a POP3 proxy form of this moving forward and integrate this, 
gurgitate, and a bayesian spam checker so that I can look at doing things a 
bit differently.

-austin
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austin ziegler    * austin@halostatue.ca * Toronto, ON, Canada
software designer * pragmatic programmer * 2003.09.20
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