Re: tlug: AOL Spam

[Frank Bennett <bennett@example.com>]

On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:14:01PM +0100, Fredric Fredricson wrote:

> Spam does not _really_ bother me that much. Can't be more than one or
> two in a hundred emails but I always get upset because I DID NOT ASK
> FOR IT. I have dreamt of some algorithm or heuristic to automatically 
> delete spam. 

This would be a never-ending story, so long as the heuristics used to
identify spam were public --- spammers then study your heuristics and
generate spam that doesn't look like spam, which you then study and
incorporate into your heuristic, which they then study ...

An under-inclusive filter and the delete key are the best medicine.

Cheers,
-- 
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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