Spam Conference in Boston

bpfinn writes "Are you working on your own anti-spam solution? Would you like to compare notes with other coders? You'll get your chance at the Spam Conference in Cambridge on January 17, 2003. Among the speakers are: Paul Graham (of "a plan for spam" fame), ESR, John Graham-Cumming (of "POPFile" fame), and Matt Sergeant from MessageLabs. According to the homepage, this conference will be very informal: "no fees, sponsorships, proceedings, luncheons, contests, etc. Just a series of quick, concentrated talks, and then we all go off and get Chinese food." Slashdotters who are peeved about spam can register here."

Comments

where have i seen this before

[Dylan_t_p]

could it be here?? here?

oh well since it's about spam only makes sense to post it more than once.

My spam solution

[archnerd]

I use SpamAssassin, combined with some scripts available here. Since I implemented this system last month, I have gotten exactly one piece of spam, and it got through because the body contained nothing except a URL.

Cloudmark SpamNet DOES work...

[cca93014]

Been running this for a few months now on MS Outlook (I know, I know) and it does work.

www.cloudmark.com

It uses a moderation system not dissimilar to Slashdot (but maybe without the weird 2+2=5 maths) and in my experience DOES work. YMMV. I've yet to have it filter a legitimate message, and it picks up about 70% of spam into my Inbox...

Re:Prevent SPAM instead of trying to deal with it.

[SnakeStu]

I've been promoting this notion for a couple years at least, while at the same time offering a spam filtering tutorial for Pegasus users. I've seen others also promoting the same general concept, sometimes with more details. However...

"One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action[s]... which bring results."
Florence Nightingale

To see this happen, somebody needs to do it rather than talking about it. A technical demonstration, at the very least. And if I'm missing something and there's something like this in the works, it needs publicity, development support, testing, etc. to take it "out of the lab" and moving toward common use.

Re:Repost?

[dacarr]

Sort of - there was an article earlier about it. Of course, now that ESR has confirmed, they had to rehash teh article. =^_^=

Trusted mail servers and TLS

[Nonesuch]

We've been talking with the Open Group on a couple of different approaches to implement the concept of "trusted servers" for SMTP.

One approach would be to use TLS with certificates signed by trusted anti-spam certification agents, and give TLS mail priority over plain-old cleartext SMTP.

Basically, nearly all current anti-spam techniques (one exception being whitelisting) work on the concept of "marking down" certain messages or sending hosts as being less trusted. Our goal is to use TLS and other approaches to apply the concept of "elevating trust", of elevating the trust level of certain hosts and messages.

Re:Semi-off-topic: best Bayesian filter for Outloo

[Gaza]

Try Spambayes, even though it is early in development I didn't have any problems getting it to work. After some initial training it catches about 99% of my spam without one false positive.

http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/applications.ht ml