= 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]].