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Revolutionary Spam Firewall Developed

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-that-said-so-anyway dept.

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."

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  1. Spelling by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I have a simple algorithm to reject spam: spelling.

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

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    1. Re:Spelling by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny
      We should apply the "good spelling" rule to /. posts.

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  2. My favorite line: by calypso15 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "...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

  3. I hope they don't reject my e-mail by koinu · · Score: 5, Funny
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