[ExI] are sp&m levels dropping?

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Tue Jun 26 18:20:36 UTC 2007


On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 01:06:11PM -0500, Damien Broderick wrote:

> These posts, ironically, are all being hurled into my spam bit bucket 
> because of the word "sp*m" in the subject line. Let's see how these 
> slight variations fare.

Sp*m filters based on content (especially simple keyword matches) are 
screwed, and have been that way for a considerable time. The only solace 
is realtime map of originating addresses, and advanced pattern recognition
(latter is unreliable, and will always be unreliable, at least as long
computers won't pass the Turing test with flying colors).



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