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."

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Re:Spelling

[shufler]

Who will be in charge of the dictionary used? You'll need one for the sender and receiver.

Who will keep this dictionary up to date? Who will keep it acurate?

Who will make sure when I type "colour" it won't get rejected? How about for words like "slashdot"? Which is the correct abbreviation for electronic mail? "email" or "e-mail"? Will the dictionary carry both entries? Will the dictioanry carry commong [sic] misspeellings [sic]? If so, what qualifies as "common?"

What happens if I want to send an e-mail to someone to talk about how much I enjoy taking Viagra? Or Pfizer sends out a press e-mail touting their new drug called "V14g.r4?" or to poke fun at a misspelling I read somewhere?

Who do we complain to when Microsoft (or the company de jour) doesn't comply to the RFC, or adds proprietary "functionality" to "extend" the RFC?

As per above, what happens when I mix up languages? What happens when I have to send an e-mail to someone who doesn't speak my language? Who maintains those dictionaries?

Which dictionary is used? One? Two? All? What happens when a word is invalid in my language, but appears in one of the other dictionaries? What happens when the last sentence is true, and I send the e-mail to someone who doesn't use the dictionary the entry appears in?

Etc, etc.