On 1/29/06, Frank Van Damme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/1/29, Timothy Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The archives mask the email addresses, right? So the only way for a > > spammer to get your address is to be subscribed to the list... > > Hmmm... > > I wouldn't surprised if spammers automated the process. Besides, I > gave up trying to fight spam by keeping my mail addresses out of the > public a long time ago. The only way you can fight spam, imho, is > 1. filtering (short term) spam with programs like spamassassin > 2. making spamming "unattractive" (long term) by sanctioning and/or > raising awareness among end users.
I'm in a little bit of a predicament, being the list owner, because I get legit emails that contain SPAM. Every time someone spams the list, I get an email about it. I can't very well tell gmail that it's SPAM, because if I do, it may start filtering administrative emails that I DO want to see, and it would filter it not based on the SPAM but based on the non-spam bits of the email that tell me what it's all about. One thing I've long thought was an obvious extension of spam filtering was general email categorization. You could train a filter to sort emails into more than just the two buckets but instead into arbitrary categories. For me, those would be private emails, legitimate bulk email (like what I get from ZDNet), administrative emails (legit emails containing spam), mailing list emails, and perhaps a few more. My doctoral advisor has me on a project to use abductive inference to find word boundaries in a body of text (say, you're missing the spaces or something). I had actually tried working on that before for SPAM filtering but hadn't quite gotten there. I think the next wave of SPAM filtering is going to try to make inferences about the semantics of the text. This way, it could tell that \/iagra (with slashes) is the same as Viagra (with a V). _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
