An effective war against spam requires that open source collaborate with the proprietary world. That’s the view Vipul Ved Prakash Prakesh (right), creator of Vipul’s Razor, and Justin Mason of the Apache Foundation, project committee member for Spam Assassin.

I talked to both men about both this and Prakash’s day job as founder and chief scientist for Cloudmark. Cloudmark’s niche in the anti-spam market lies with small corporations and ISPs, said product director Dave Champine. “We came up with a plug-in API, and I’m happy to see Cloudmark’s commercial product running on top of the Spam Assassin platform.” » Broader collaboration needed against spam | Open Source | ZDNet.com

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