[CLUE-Announce] CLUE DTC November 2002 Meeting

[Jeffery Cann]

Greetings.

Please join us for the next DTC CLUE meeting, this Tuesday, 12 Nov 2002.  The 
Wireless LAN KISS session will begin at 6:30 pm.  The Spam Assasin 
presentation will begin around 7:15 pm.

Please visit our web site:  http://www.cluedenver.org/ for additional 
information, including links to meeting maps and information.

Jeffery Cann
CLUE President

------------------------ Meeting Abstracts ------------------

MAIN Session Topic: Spam Tools that Work with Barb Dijker (7:00 pm)

The volume of spam that both users and ISPs must deal with is increasing at an 
astronomical rate. There are many tools to help curtail the flow of spam 
ranging from DNS-based blacklists to mail client-based filtering schemes. 
This talk will provide an overview of the latest tools and techniques for 
managing spam, focusing on one tool that really works: SpamAssassin.

SpamAssassin can be installed and used by one person or integrated into 
sendmail to block spam for an entire site. It uses a rule base to assign a 
probability that a message is spam. It is over 99% effective at identifying 
spam. The talk will go into detail about how to install, use, and customize 
SpamAssassin.

Barb Dijker (barb at netrack.net) has been fighting and analyzing spam for 
many years as a consultant, and is involved with two local ISPs, Netrack, 
Inc., and Colorado Internet Coop. She has given talks on spam around the 
globe and has served as an expert witness in a legal case involving spam.

KISS Session Topic: Setting up a Wireless LAN with Match Grun (6:30 pm)

How I set up a wireless LAN with a LinkSys PCMCIA card and a Wireless Access 
Point.  Match is a programmer for the Slypheed project (among others) and a 
long time CLUE member.

Hall Kinion graciously donates the resources for our meeting location.  Please 
consider Hall Kinion for your technology staff needs. 

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