A Plan for Spam
August 2002(This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the spamproof web-based mail reader we built to exercise Arc. An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.)I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message.
- ▪August 2002(This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the spamproof web-based mail reader we built to exercise Arc.
- ▪An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.)I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it.
- ▪The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message.
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Like to build things? Try Hacker News. August 2002(This article describes the spam-filtering techniques used in the spamproof web-based mail reader we built to exercise Arc. An improved algorithm is described in Better Bayesian Filtering.)I think it's possible to stop spam, and that content-based filters are the way to do it. The Achilles heel of the spammers is their message. They can circumvent any other barrier you set up. They have so far, at least. But they have to deliver their message, whatever it is. If we can write software that recognizes their messages, there is no way they can get around that._ _ _To the recipient, spam is easily recognizable. If you hired someone to read your mail and discard the spam, they would have little trouble doing it.
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