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Live spam-catching contest at CEAS
noodleburglar writes "The 2007 Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) will feature a live spam-catching contest. Entrants will be treated to a torrent of spam and must use their spam filtering technique to filter out as much as possible, while also letting legitimate messages. My money's on Spam Assassin." This ought to be a sweeps week television spectacular.
It think I've seen people catching spam on tv, just not the kind you're talkin' 'bout. http://www.spam.com/
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
Well let's just find out, just what is your gmail address, hmmmm?
;)
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
1st prize: Job offer from a security-software vendor
2nd prize: Lifetime supply of Hormel meat products
3rd prize: Commemorative tin of SPAM meat product
Last place: Inheritance from Nigerian Prince
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Just open a yahoo mail account, and start posting with the e-mail address all over th internet.
You'll catch more spam than anyone else!
Oh, you want me to filter out spam, not just get spam, nevermind.
Still, it might be the fastest way to build a database of spam.
A torrent of spam? It doesn't come in cans anymore?!
The cans were so much easier to catch, too.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
Don't lie. You and your buddies got drunk and would go spam tipping. There was no hunting involved.
Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got much spam in it.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
Unlike many other "filters", CRM114's default action is to read all of input, and put NOTHING onto output.
This is either:
1) "automatic" white-listing?
2) Not healthy and you should eat more fibre.
Translation: "You have no chance to survive. Make your time."
Couldn't we just have a contest where actual live spammers are fed to lions?
To quote Bill Mattocks...
"My sense of personal integrity is none of your concern."
-thus spake Walt "Pickle Jar" Rines
"I'm going to pound your balls flat with a wooden mallet."
-thus respondeth Bill Mattocks
Find a creative and unique solution (cheat):
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
"This ought to be a sweeps week television spectacular."
I think that it already is, but it's only on in Japan and uses real SPAM.