Nigeria Widows Lose Their Fortune

Phil John writes "In a cruel twist of fate, two Nigerian widows are genuinely fighting it out for their husband's (yes, the same husband) $55M fortune. The BBC has the full scoop. Who wants to bet we're abot to see a whole lot of 419's from 'The Wife of the Late Timothy Olufemi Akanni?'" Sometimes, life is too amusing to be true.

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and the solution for spam is...

[spectrokid]

We just got upgraded to Outlook 2003 with fancy junk-mail features and it still sucks donkey balls (suprise, suprise). The reason is very simple: Setting up a bayesian spam filter is way too complicated for joe sixpack. And any spamfilter run at the mailserver is missing one very important piece of information: the adres book of the recipient. It should be possible for mail servers which pass on the mails to add spam-info in the header. Any server should be able to add a spam-probability to the header, and any server should be able to modify the estimate by the previous one based on wether it trusts the previous server or not. As we slowly upgrade the SMTP network to more secure standards, the servers will be more accurate in predicting wether the message is spam or not. In the end, the last server sets in the header:"this is 78% certain spam". The client (Outlook or whatever) can than proces it with a very simple rule s.a.: "If it is more than 75%, and the sender is not in my adres book, then ditch the crap." This method would allow ISP's to experiment with the spam-catching technology of the month, and yet provide a standardised interface to the end user. Who volunteers to write the RFC?