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New Method of Spam Filtering
Alephcat writes "A simple and easily implemented scheme for combating e-mail spam has been devised by two researchers in the United States. P. Oscar Boykin and Vwani Roychowdhury of the University of California, Los Angeles use their method to exploit the structure of social networks to quickly determine whether a given message comes from a friend or a spammer. The method works for only about half of all e-mails received - but in all of those cases, it sorts the mail into the right category. The article was published on Nature magazines website earlier today."
You take food away from a spammer and his children. Don't block spam, or else you hate childeren. You don't hate children... do you?
He was probably sick of people like me mistaking his name for a made up spam "from" line.
Spammers suck, right? And their children have obviously inherited the spamming gene. So, by starving the children to death, we're preventing the spam gene from spreading. It may sound wrong, but we're actually helping society.
If it doesn't use bullets, I don't want to hear about it.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Can't stop the friend-of-a-friend idiot who hits "reply to all."
It might not be "spam" but I filter it now. I'll stick with my procmail filters.
Hey, don't knock a filter that can correctly sort mail in to two piles fifty percent of the time. CoinToss 1.0 has been a real innovation!
Member of the Stop Fucking Saying 'M$' army
Right, from now on, it's "micros~1" for me.
The Spam Gene is actually a regressive gene, not likely it appeared in the parents or ofspring. It's affect is similar to fouling the nest or pissing on food before eating.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Next thing I know all my email is going to have a reply-to: Kevin Bacon.