Human-Powered Spam Filtering

Posted by Hemos on Monday September 20, 2004 @03:04AM from the interesting-concept dept.

arturs writes "A company called eProvisia started an unusal business: they filter out spam not by using complicated algorithms, but human beings... It costs around $20/year - is the war against spam over?" It's an interesting idea - the privacy concerns are big of course, but how would this stack up to, say SpamAssassin or a suite like Barracuda's Spam firewall. We tested the Barracuda device - great integration of OSS software, with a nice interface. Update: 09/20 15:12 GMT by J : Corrected price of Spam Eradicator.

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Re:With a personal touch by mrgreen4242 · 2004-09-20 03:07 · Score: 0, Offtopic

If I had any mod points, I'd waste them modding that up funny.
Bah...that's nothing... by GillBates0 · 2004-09-20 03:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

My brain already runs on HPOS - the human-powered Operating System.

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