SpamAssassin Presentations and Papers
Here are some presentations and papers regarding SpamAssassin, with the most recent presentations listed first:
Kevin A. [McGrail], SpamAssassin: Way more than the Mac OS X Server GUI shows, Mac Sysadmin Conference Göteborg 2009: [http://www.pccc.com/presentations/macsysadmin_2009_presentation_final_post.pdf PDF Slides & Notes], [http://www.pccc.com/presentations/macsysadmin_2009_presentation_final_post.pptx PowerPoint 2007 Slides & Notes].
Justin Mason, New Features in SpamAssassin 3.2.0 Of Interest To Large Receivers, MAAWG Dublin 2007: [http://taint.org/x/2007/maawg/maawg-dublin-june2007.odp OpenOffice 2.0 slides], [http://taint.org/x/2007/maawg/maawg-dublin-june2007.pdf PDF slides], [http://taint.org/x/2007/maawg/maawg-html/img0.html HTML].
Michael Parker, High Performance Apache SpamAssassin, ApacheCon US 2006: [http://people.apache.org/~parker/SAHighPerformance.pdf PDF slides] [http://people.apache.org/~parker/HighPerformanceSpamAssassinOutline.pdf PDF notes]
Michael Parker, Extending Apache SpamAssassin Using Plugins, ApacheCon US 2005/2006: [http://people.apache.org/~parker/SAPluginSlides.pdf PDF slides] [http://people.apache.org/~parker/SAPluginNotes.pdf PDF notes [http://people.apache.org/~parker/SAPlugin.zip zip of both]
Malte S. Stretz, SpamAssassin: Mehr als statische Filter (German), Mailserver-Konferenz 2005: [http://msquadrat.de/pub/talks/mailserver-konferenz-2005/SpamAssassin-MSK2005.sxi Impress slides (71k)] [http://msquadrat.de/pub/talks/mailserver-konferenz-2005/SpamAssassin-MSK2005.pdf PDF slides (179k)]
Michael Parker, Storing SpamAssassin User Data in SQL Databases, ApacheCon 2004: [http://www.apache.org/~parker/presentations/MO13slides.pdf PDF slides], [http://www.apache.org/~parker/presentations/MO13notes.pdf PDF notes], [http://www.apache.org/~parker/presentations/MO13.zip zip of both]
Theo Van Dinter, New and Upcoming Features in SpamAssassin v3, ApacheCon 2004: [http://www.apache.org/~felicity/AC2004/ Multiple PDF versions]
Justin Mason, Spam Forensics: Reverse-Engineering Spammer Tactics, Toorcon 2004: [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/2004-09-Toorcon/html/ HTML slideshow from MagicPoint] ([http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/2004-09-Toorcon/src.tar.gz source]).
Henry Stern, Justin Mason, and Michael Shepherd, "A Linguistics-Based Attack on Personalised Statistical E-mail Classifiers", Technical Report CS-2004-06, Dalhousie University, March 25th, 2004, [http://www.cs.dal.ca/research/techreports/2004/CS-2004-06.pdf PDF (161 KB)]
Matt Sergeant, Internet-Level Spam Detection and SpamAssassin 2.50, Spam Conference 2003: [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/SpamConf2003.ppt PPT (368k)], [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/SpamConf2003.pdf PDF (4MB)], [http://axkit.org/docs/presentations/spam/ source].
Justin Mason, Filtering Spam With SpamAssassin, HEANet Annual Conference 2002: [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/HEANet_2002.ppt PPT (234k)], [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/HEANet_2002/ HTML].
Justin Mason, Filtering Spam With SpamAssassin (earlier revision), SAGE-IE meeting, October 2002: [http://spamassassin.apache.org/presentations/SAGE_IE_2002/ HTML slideshow from MagicPoint].