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Re: Collecting IP reputation data from many people

From: Lawrence _at_nospam <_at_nospam>
Date: Thu Oct 28 2010 - 16:26:08 GMT
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org

On 28/10/2010 1:45 PM, David F. Skoll wrote:
> OK,
>
> On a somewhat less sarcastic note: One reason we didn't use TCP is that
> it simply doesn't scale. If you have clients that open a TCP connection,
> do a report, and then close the TCP connection, there's a huge bandwidth
> penalty. On the other hand, if your clients maintain persistent TCP
> connections, your server is going to run out of sockets rather quickly.
>
> Remember, our system is designed to scale to tens or hundreds of thousands
> of reporting systems sending tens or hundreds of thousands of reports
> per second.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
What reporting system do you use? and how does one avail of the data it
provides?