RE: Anyone want to write an "intelligent" mail filter?
Irv,
Don't know if this helps, but my ISP has a web-based Spam blocker. It's
a free service to all subscribers. You can log on to the Spam blocker,
set the sensitivity, check your Spam "in-box", delete the junk, etc.
I REALLY like it! I can go in, scroll through the Spam and in two
clicks delete everything there. If the Spam blocker traps a legitimate
email, you can tell it to accept all emails from the address in the
future.
I don't know if they bought it or wrote it. You could suggest to your
ISP that they look into getting this software. My ISP is www.yhti.net.
HTH,
Jonas
Irv Mullins wrote:
>
>
> Every day I get more annoying SPAM e-mails. Currently it's running about
> 10
> spams to every valid e-mail.
>
> I'm tired of wading thru them, and I'd rather not download them at all.
> My e-mail client can filter the messages by sender or subject, but most
> spams now are written to get around those filters.
>
> One thing I notice is that nearly 100% of the spams either contain the
> word "lagos" or long strings of "dictionary" words to confuse the
> filters:
>
> "indecisive constitute dakar summitry ajax beaver descendent withal
> circumlocution asocial voluble inquire convolution replete hitler
> commendation segregate cognition abstract eject disgustful"
>
> But very few or none of the more common shorter words that would likely
> appear in a valid e-mail: "a, and, or, if, you, we, I, to, for, the,
> this,
> that....."
>
> We should be able to come up with a routine which would analyze a given
> text string and rank it according to its likelyhood of being a
> 'meaningful'
> message. Then use that routine in an e-mail client to rank messages and
> only download from the server those which appear to be 'real'.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Irv
>
>
> --
> Windows 98 is *NOT* a virus - viruses are small and efficient.
>
>
|
Not Categorized, Please Help
|
|
