Razor2 still sucks
Several years ago when I was developing an anti-SPAM appliance I banged my head against the wall because of Vipul’s Razor2. For those of you who aren’t familiar, the short version is that it’s an anti-spam tool that checksums messages that people mark as spam and then allows you to check your messages against a database of known spam checksums. I had several list disucssions back then with Vipul and others about how Razor had become completely ineffective because of the current implementation. Again, the short of it was that it was marking stuff that CLEARLY shouldn’t be SPAM as such. I took Razor2 out of our software permanently.
Here we are 5 years later. A few months ago I enabled Razor2 on my own mail server. This morning it marked a personal email from an affiliate manager that wasn’t even close to any kind of form-email as SPAM.
I’m shocked and appalled that Razor2 still sucks just as much as it did 5 years ago.
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