RE: Anyone want to write an "intelligent" mail filter?
- Posted by <jxliv7 at hotmail.com>
Nov 05, 2003
if you guys have been reading /. (slashdot.org) the latest
spammer trick
seems to be DDoS virus/trojans to kill the email
blacklisting (or
whitelisting) sites. i'd hate to be mistaken for one.
bouncing bad email just gives them a means to sell and
address to their
"friends" in the business or it opens you up to a
personalized attack.
when you block an IP or a range of IPs, in most cases you're
blocking a
lot of innocent people along with the bad. and you never
know who might
be tryng to get ahold of you via email -- maybe your 10th
university
reunion, or your granny who got switched ISPs through some
buyout.
the difference between email read with a web browser and
email read with
an email program is going to be a bone of contention for
many, since
there are good points and bad points with each.
i think the best hope for universal email is bayesian
filters, which get
up to the high 90's in efficiency. if the words in the email
fit the
mold that the user determines by email recieved, it's
discarded and
what's left is good email.
all that said, i'm not sure i'd invest the time in writing a
spam
filtering program right now since things are changing too
fast. i'll
just keep my dozen or so accounts where they are and manage
with the 75
or so spams i get a day. that's about 50% spam, by the way.
--
jon
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