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another anti-spam tool
Apr. 14th, 2004 10:58 amI'm surprised no one has implemented this before now.
Spam-detection based on sender, message format, keywords, and analysis of headers has been getting harder; the spammers are coming up with new techniques faster than the good guys are coming up with antedotes. One thing that they can't completely disguise, though, is the web sites they're advertising. Enter the Spam URI Realtime Blacklist. That's just brilliant. My mail provider started using it yesterday, and it's already making a difference for me.
It's not a silver bullet; spammers will defeat it in time. But I like to think that maybe they're going to have to work a little harder at it than at finding yet another undefended relay or anti-Baysian trick or whatever.
Oh, and an interesting statistic: my provider is seeing an average of 10 pieces of spam per customer per hour, which is somewhat more than what I've personally been seeing (about 125 per day). They say soem customers get ten times that. Eeek.
Spam-detection based on sender, message format, keywords, and analysis of headers has been getting harder; the spammers are coming up with new techniques faster than the good guys are coming up with antedotes. One thing that they can't completely disguise, though, is the web sites they're advertising. Enter the Spam URI Realtime Blacklist. That's just brilliant. My mail provider started using it yesterday, and it's already making a difference for me.
It's not a silver bullet; spammers will defeat it in time. But I like to think that maybe they're going to have to work a little harder at it than at finding yet another undefended relay or anti-Baysian trick or whatever.
Oh, and an interesting statistic: my provider is seeing an average of 10 pieces of spam per customer per hour, which is somewhat more than what I've personally been seeing (about 125 per day). They say soem customers get ten times that. Eeek.