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.