The Next Step In Spam Filtering

simeonbeta2 writes "Paul Graham (of "A Plan for Spam" fame) has a couple of new articles up. The first one details the success of Bayesian spam filters despite various circumvention techniques by spammers. While the success of Bayesian spam filtering is encouraging, it certainly hasn't seemed to stem the flow of spam in the last year or so. His second article, however, suggests finally taking the anti-spam battle to the spammers! Paul proposes that spam filtering packages automatically spider links contained in probable spam. Not only will this increase the accuracy of filters (by running the retrieved content through the spam filter as well) but this would effectively be a massive distributed DOS attack on spammers. This isn't a new idea nor is it without its problems but I think it's definitely an idea whose time has come."

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Duplicate!

[JohnGrahamCumming]

Congratulations, Slashdot editors, this is a dupe.

And I'm a subscriber.

And I emailed you before it was posted saying it was a dupe of this story: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/08/10/161920 6&mode=thread&tid=111&tid=126. Anybody there?

John.

Paul Graham is a bad web designer

[axxackall]

Dear Paul, With all my respect to you as a computer scientist, I should say that your web design skills are far from being perfect. Or your marketing skills are not good that they force you to make so bad web design decisions.

Anyway, what did you think when you have designed the site that displays on a third of my monitor width leaving two thirds as an empty blank white space?

Yes, I do have 1280 horisontal resolution. And yes, I do know that there are people with worse resolution of their monitors, like 800.

But don't you know that you can use "%" when you control the width of table elements, filling the whole space of all monitors with actually usefull content of your web site?

Sorry if it looks offensive, but you gotta change just few bytes in your web templates in order to show that you respect people no matter what monitors they have. In other words, please don't punish people who have got good monitors.