Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed

psy writes "physorg has a story on a new spam firewall developed at The University of Queensland. The new technology is the only true spam firewall in existence, according to co-developer Matthew Sullivan. "Existing anti-spam software filters out spam whereas ours puts up a firewall, stopping all email traffic and only allowing real mail through," said Mr Sullivan. "In addition, our technology is accurate and fast. We recently completed a successful trial of a key layer of the spam firewall and it processed the emails at 90 messages per second, misclassifying only one out of 25,000 emails." "It turned out that the software was even better than us, picking up spam we'd incorrectly classified as legitimate emails."

Comments

Spelling

[swordboy]

I have a simple algorithm to reject spam: spelling.

If you can't spell correctly, then I don't want your v1agr4.

Re:Spelling

[gowen]

We should apply the "good spelling" rule to /. posts.

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My favorite line:

[calypso15]

"...companies losing valuable employee time to deleting spam..."

Maybe they should be working on a Slashdot-Firewall. Damn, I really should get back to work.

Oh, and since the linked article got /.ed, here:
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.phtml?article=5833

As a self-appointed representative of ...

[burgburgburg]

Unconsciously Desired Email Industry (Our slogan: You opted in in your heart!), I'd like to strongly protest the continuing escalation of technology against us. We provide the opportunity for hundreds of thousands of people to spend freely on products unburdened by simple heuristics of "they work" or "they won't make you ill" or "we'll actually send them". Why are you so intent on interfering with the consumer ethos?

Re:Not a firewall

[Tony Hoyle]

the definition of a firewall is a device on a network that allows or denies access

Ahh, so *that's* what our system administrator is called..

I'll stick to 'Mordac' though.

I hope they don't reject my e-mail

[koinu]

I'm a.l-wa-ys wr|?|-ng l|-ke ðißs 2 m.y f-iends

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The what where now?

[broothal]

This didn't make it through my bullshit filter. Oh - sorry, I mean bullshit firewall. It's like this new technology that rejects bullshit from the evil internet, so I never have to read it. Thank god, because if I'd read about this "revolutionary spam firewall" I would be forced to make a childish comment on slashdot and burn some karma.