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Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-rid-of-it dept.

pirateninja writes "Dr. Gord Cormack decided to find and prove what the best spam filter is. In his study he looked at the major spam filters (DSPAM, SpamAssassin, etc.) along with those submitted by various academics. The results are quite surprising, with a previously unheard-of spam filter, which uses ideas from various compression algorithms, performing the best overall. He recently presented the results and methodology used in a presentation titled 'Spam Filters, Do they Work? and Can you prove it?'" Note that this is a video of his presentation.

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  1. Why not just douse the server in gas... by shotgunefx · · Score: 3, Funny

    400MB?

    Why not just douse the server in gas if you want to see it melt.

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    1. Re:Why not just douse the server in gas... by Tsiangkun · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm getting 8kb/s downloads from the site, it's just like the good old days !

      I'll post more next week after I watch the video.

  2. Fantastic Spam Filters Which Work Best Proving! by _vSyncBomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Slashdot, what's up, man! Dude, I read your thing and like totally agree about Best Work Proving Spam Site Work! Dude, that's awesome!

    Bro, in the same vein, I was totally checking out this dope ass site which you might wanna check out too man. Guys like us that dig Spam Which Proving and Best work Filters will be all over this before long...

    OK, man take care until I see you this Friday at the dinner thing, Slashdot!

    Cheers,
    John

  3. Re:In my experience... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've always had a very high success rate with these.

    I haven't tested this one myself, Barrett Filter but I understand it is 100% effective at reducing spam from known sources. False positives may be a problem, however.

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  4. Under present IST policy... by patio11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... they are not allowed to douse the servers in gas.

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    Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
  5. Harder! by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    I uuencoded the video file, translated it into Sumerian cuneiform, and pressed it into a billion little clay tablets. They are cooking in my oven right now. Now, the Internet is NOT some kind of truck you can just dump stuff onto, so if you want to get the data you're going to have to come to my house.

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    1. Re:Harder! by rts008 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't come to your house, you insensitive clod!, teh tubes are clogged with clay tablets!

      I won't be able to download my internet until Friday now!

      Turn that crap down, and get off of my lawn! Damn kids!

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    2. Re:Harder! by Cylix · · Score: 1, Funny

      Excellent...

      By chance, are you nearby?

      I have a wonderful set of wikipedia tablets I made and I'm eager to offload them...er I mean... trade them.

      It's the updates you see, I've been having a bit of a nightmare trying to keep them all in sync.

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    3. Re:Harder! by Crayon+Kid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Bwahaha, I'm moving my blog to clay tablets. They will undoubtedly survive the next Ice Age and the people of year 5000 will be forced to read about my cat, how I hate Emo's and that guy at work who doesn't wash. But first I'll change my blog nick to "Earth Imperial Overlord Supreme", just to fuck with them future dudes.

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  6. Re: Very Interesting And Generally Really Amusing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey _vSyncBomb,

      Having trouble pleasing your woman? I've got something Very Interesting And Generally Really Amusing that you could try!!!

    Your buddy,
    _vAnoymousCoward

  7. I got the 400M download! by Ossifer · · Score: 3, Funny

    And I printed out every frame so I could scan them. I'll be posting the TIFFs on my website shortly...

  8. Re:RTFA? by emag · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We are sorry that these talks are not available as plain HTML, PDF, or text, however under present IST policy we are not allowed to provide plain HTML, PDF, or text."

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  9. An alternative format by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    All someone needs to do is rig this video up to the wonderful Microsoft Voice Recognition software, and then post the resultant transcript. Surely it won't have that many errors...

  10. Re:fuck power went out! by lewp · · Score: 1, Funny

    I think it's trying to communicate with us...

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  11. Ask Slashdot ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Slashdot,
    At the university where I work, they have recently adopted a pesky policy banning the use of bitTorrent.
    What can I do to fix this ?
    Yours faithfully,
    Dr. Gord Cormack

  12. Good job the I don't filter web content by slayer99 · · Score: 2, Funny
    "In his study he looked at the major spam filters ( DSPAM, SpamAssasian"

    Spam about asian donkeys is a new one on me, though.

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  13. real men by nude-fox · · Score: 1, Funny

    dont use spam filters and we reply to every damn email we get no matter what

  14. Re:In my experience... by cerberusss · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ummm, you didn't get the joke. Read it again, Sam.

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  15. Re:Combo of SpamAssassin and Spamhaus by jdowland · · Score: 3, Funny
    The key is still: don't give out your address. Once you've done that, you're going to be screwed eventually.


    Nah, that's such a half measure. The real solution is to not have an email address at all.