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Spam Trap Claims 10x-100x Accuracy Gain
SpiritGod21 writes in with a NYTimes article on a new approach to spam detection that claims out-of-the-box improvement of 1 or 2 orders of magnitude over existing approaches. The article wanders off into human-interest territory as the inventor, Steven T. Kirsch, has an incurable disease and an engineer's approach to fighting it. But a description of the anti-spam tech, based on the reputation of the receiver and not the sender, is worth a read.
"harm reduction" is something liberals like to spout when they don't have the backbone to deal with the problem. there is no harm reduction when dealing with illegal drugs - it's just plain dangerous.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Better make damned sure of that, you thieving asshole.
-jcr
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