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Live spam-catching contest at CEAS

Posted by CmdrTaco on

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.

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  1. CRM114 by sageFool · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://crm114.sourceforge.net/ using hyperspace! It's been working better than spam assassin for me.

  2. Group spam detection by Animats · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gmail, like SpamCop, has a group spam filter system. It looks at mail sent to a large number of recipients. The defining characteristic of spam is that it's sent to a large number of recipients, after all. If you're in a position to watch the incoming mail of a few million mailboxes, detecting spam is easy.