100 GB Email Account

soccrates writes "An article on Toms Hardware describes a Californian company giving out 100 GB email accounts to its customers. They even extended a challenge to get the first user to completely fill up the account, the winner getting a 1 terabyte account ! "

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Re:Spam Harvesting

[LiquidCoooled]

The problem is, one persons spam is another persons ham.

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"

It all depends on perspective.

Of course, there are common things that neither party wants, but giving a one size fits all filter for all but the most obvious will cause false positives.

Don't you think the big mail companies would have sorted it out by now if they could? They have the largest harvest of spam around.

[I was going to stop here, below are just random ramblings]

Having said all that, I believe every person should be allocated a bloom filter with their mail classification preferences. This filter is used against the results of all the identification rules.

All the mail companies should accept this token and display mail which passes. Currently, I have 4 mail providers who deal with spam differently, I would like to setup one set of rules.
The good thing about using a bloom is that preferences can be merged increasing the effectiveness, for instance, a virus filter, a fakes filter, a childsafe filter, or an office filter, developers filter etc.

Of course, this way, we don't change the front end mailing system itself, and people who don't use this token are free to handle the mail however they like.

I'll stop wafflin now.