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Spammers Choose GMail
EdwardLAN writes "A study by Roaring Penguin has discovered that during the past three weeks, the amount of spam originating from Gmail has risen sharply." My spam has been pretty ridiculously high for the last few weeks, although I have no idea if this is part of it. It really does seem like gmail's spam filters are declining these days.
Gmail used to be touted as the best spam filtering service. Certainly it's good, but apparently they only feel the need to filtering incoming messages. Why not filter outgoing messages as well? Can't quite be a CPU problem, because outgoing has be be just a small fraction of incoming, right?
Is it just tradition? People never expect anything they send to ever have anything done to it? Google could set another precedent in webmail by introducing outgoing filters which would block or slow down mail appearing to be 'spammy'.
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With most big name email players like gmail, yahoo, etc, now using DomainKeys, the value of having an email address on any such system has skyrocketed. Gmail addresses are also usually even more respectable addresses. So being on gmail and a getting through because DomainKeys work makes it is a privileged domain.
What the proper response should be:
What should really happen is SenderKeys, which augments DomainKeys. You will get your own domain key when you can become "verified" like at Ebay and elsewhere. SenderKeys is implied by DomainKeys.
Slashdot's rate-of-post filter: Preventing you from posting too many great ideas at once.
I find it interesting that gmail's spam filters are in-bound only (If that is in fact the case [citation needed])
on the e-mail system I run, every message gets sent through our spam/virus-detection system. I don't care if it's inbound, or outbound, it gets scanned. period.
yes my site is much smaller than gmail, but still... isn't the first rule "Don't trust the users!"?
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Well, as you increase the level of intelligence meeded to go through the CAPTCHA, you start to leave humans out. And this only gets worst as CAPTCHA breakers get better and better, so in that sense, the CAPTCHA is broken, and also in that sense, we have artificial intelligence that is at least as good as the worst humans.
When his defense asked, "Which computer has Jon Johansen trespassed upon?" the answer was: "His own."
> Most people on USENET are just dropping anything coming from Google Groups outright.
Google Groups is well overdue for an active Usenet Death Penalty; in my opinion it is the only sanction which will make them take note. It was sufficient to bring Erols and UUNet to their senses. ( There is a conspiracy theory that Google is deliberately flooding Usenet; a UDP would disprove this in addition to forcing action ).
Similarly, widespread blacklisting of Google Mail may be the only means of controlling the huge increase in spam. At present, a few individuals and companies are blacklisting but this is inadequate to make Goliath pay attention.
Two years of beta in the OSS community isn't unheard of. Wine was in an alpha/beta state for what...16 years?
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I love Slashdot. One minute everybody is all pro net-neutrality, and insisting that ISPs shouldn't prioritize or monitor customer traffic because it's none of their business what someone does with their connection. Then somebody mentions the word spam, and all of a sudden the attitude turns completely around and ISPs should be held responsible for customers private communications and behaviour on the internet. Kicking people off the net is fine, as long as you're only breaking spam laws. But kicking people off the net for breaking copyright law is bad, how dare those evil corporations!
I'm not necessarily expressing an opinion either way, I just think it's interesting.