ALAN SCHWARTZ

The Art of War has been described as the "the oldest military treatise in the world". Recent research, however, suggests that Sun Tzu wrote it to celebrate his youngest child obtaining gainful employment and (finally) moving out of the house. Thinly veiled as a manual for military leaders, this crowning achievement in classical Chinese literature has now been restored to its original purpose: providing advice to those who would undertake the dangers and rigors of parenting. In this new edition, Sun Tzus true wisdom is again made available to struggling parents everywhere. (Makes a great gift for Mothers or Fathers day!)

Schwartz (clinical decision making, University of Illinois) clarifies the installation, configuration, and use of the SpamAssassin's rule-based system that analyzes email and compares different parts of messages with a large set of rules. Writing with Unix system administrators in mind, he also explains how to integrate SpamAssassin with the sendmail, Postfix, qmail, and Exim mail transport agents. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR