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Interview With The SpamAssassin

Posted by Zonk on from the thin-pink-line dept.

comforteagle writes "Howard Wen has conducted an interview with Daniel Quinlan of SpamAssassin. In it he explores what keeps Daniel motivated in the face of the unrelenting torrent of spam and new spamming techniques, as well as, what is working - what is not, and what he predicts spammers have up their sleeves next for defeating spam detection." From the interview: "If you don't mind deleting spam manually, that's your prerogative, but don't complain about it. If your ISP doesn't do a good job fighting spam, then switch ISPs or install your own anti-spam software. There are a lot of choices out there."

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  1. Complain as much as you can! by iolaus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "If you don't mind deleting spam manually, that's your prerogative, but don't complain about it. If your ISP doesn't do a good job fighting spam, then switch ISPs or install your own anti-spam software. There are a lot of choices out there."

    How the hell do you think the national do-not-call list came about? Because people bitched and complained! I agree there are spam solutions out there but I still think there should be an easier, more fool-proof, and legally backed way of opting out of spam.

    --
    I find laziness to be an excellent motivator.
  2. SURBL by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    OSDir.com: What's the most effective anti-spam technology that SpamAssassin uses right now?

    Quinlan: I think network rules are the most effective single technology, in particular, the URI rules that use SURBL, looking for spammer domains in Web links.

    The SURBL can be found here: http://www.surbl.org. It's a very good thing, so much so that spammers are starting to try to get around it by doing stuff like this:
    Copy the following URL removing the space into your browser:

    www. spammer-site.com
    John.