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The Next Step in Fighting Spam: Greylisting

Posted by michael on from the ideas-are-a-dime-a-dozen dept.

Evan Harris writes "I've just published a paper on a new and unique spam blocking method called "Greylisting". The best thing about it other than achieving better than 97% effectiveness in blocking spam, is that it practically eliminates the main problem of other solutions: the false-positive. There's even source code for an example implementation written as a perl filter for sendmail, along with instructions for installing, so you can get up and running quickly."

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  1. FIRST SPAM POST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    please mod this as -1,Spam.

  2. we are the robots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    twelfth post!

  3. I'm just wondering... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...is anyone else looking forward to watching Jennifer Connolly's breasts on the big screen this weekend?

  4. Is Evan Harris the GOATSE.CX GUY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    he has such a cute hole

  5. geez by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The site seems to be fine, why not wait untill it *actualy* get's slashdotted?

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.