Do you remember when Aunty told you about Internet hottie Daniel Quinlan, in the context of SpamAssassin being picked the top anti-spam product? Or, in addition to his work with SpamAssassin, you may remember Quinlan as Vice-President of the Apache Software Foundation, which was in the news a few months ago for its rejecting Microsoft’s Sender I.D. proposal.

Well, Daniel Quinlan, who in addition to his being one of the SpamAssassin architects and a project management committee chair for the SpamAssassin project, now works at Ironport for his day job, and, in case Auntie hasn’t mentioned it, is an Internet hottie, was recently the subject of an in-depth interview with…

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When most of us get e-mail offering questionable herbal alternatives to Viagra or dubiously low prices on Adobe software, we simply delete it, having accepted long ago that receiving at least some unsolicited e-mail comes with the price of using the Internet. But for Daniel Quinlan, it motivates him to figure out how to stop it - for not just his sake but everybody else’s. It’s his job: He works as an anti-spam architect for an e-mail security provider. And his paid work also carries over to his contributions to SpamAssassin, of which he currently chairs this free software’s Project Management Committee. [OSDir.com]