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Using Statistics to Cause Spammers Pain

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. Put it on Sourceforge(t) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've got an idea for this great new project. I'll post all the details and then hopefully some code will get written. Then, in a year, we'll still be at stage 0. Ah, the power of open source.