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.

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email migrating to pmail (permission mail)

[drDugan]

I think email in its current form will eventally die. There is no way with increased information transparancy that a global network of email will continue to function efficiently. Simply too many senders and too much spam.

I could work better if we migrate to an invite-only system on top of email (extending the email-realted RFCs) -- one where mail delivery only occurs to individuals from those who hold a key (the public half of a keypair between the two people).

Such a migration will require minimal additional functionality by both existing email clients and servers. I wrote up some thoughts on this idea here http://biocontact.org/pmail/ but I've recieved no response.