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Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain

Posted by michael on from the slow-poison dept.

mlamb writes "Statistical mail classifiers like PopFile save time on the part of their users, but don't do anything to actively combat spam. I just published an article that suggests a way to use classifier output against a spammer while they're connected to your SMTP server, and I'm launching a project called TarProxy to implement it."

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  1. Exactly ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 5, Funny
    Back to old punishments ... Tar and Feathering ...

    Exactly how it should be.

    Perhaps public floggings and other corperal punishment as well.

    However I have to wonder if all spammers are really sane ... I just got an email about chicks who crave small penis's and those who crave big penis's and then emails about penis enlargement and viagra online purchases, it just seems weird that there is so much concern for my penis. Perhaps we should just imprison them on an island as they might find tar and feathering a bit kinky and enjoy it.

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  2. Slowing down the mail server by starling · · Score: 5, Funny

    TarProxy is written in Java,

    Well, that's one way to do it.

    1. Re:Slowing down the mail server by pboulang · · Score: 4, Funny
      HA!

      Please don't do that when I'm drinking hot coffee. . . .

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  3. First post... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was hoping to get first post, but my connection got throttled back to nothing....

  4. Re:If you want to stop spam... by HisMother · · Score: 5, Funny
    > Is it possible to write some kind of program that has a detrimental yet still legal effect on the web sites (if any) featured in your spam?

    Great idea! Parse out the URLs, plug 'em into some boilerplate, and automatically submit it as a story to Slashdot! They'll never try THAT again!

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  5. Re:Interesting idea by helix400 · · Score: 3, Funny
    Yep, like he explained rather hilariously:

    "This would transform the server into a sort of dynamic tarpit, in which the spamminess of the incoming message affects the viscosity of the tar"

    Its quotes like this why I love Open Source projects. =)