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A Look At Google's Email Spam Prevention
CNet has a story about the security measures Google employs to protect their email systems and fight the never-ending war on spam. Their Postini team, acquired two years ago, has a variety of monitoring tools and automated response systems to find and block undesirable messages. Quoting:
"The system scores each message on numerous combinations of criteria, assigning a weight to each and then comparing the score to those in a database of several hundred thousand message types that have been flagged as good or bad from Postini honey pots and customer spam reports. ... To block fresh spam attacks not covered by existing heuristic technologies and viruses not covered by existing signature databases Postini relies on proprietary Zero-Hour technology to identify new outbreaks that show up in the traffic patterns and quarantine them for later rescanning. Customers can also create and build out their own white lists of message senders they trust and blacklist others they don't trust. It takes an average of 150 milliseconds for a message to be scanned by the antivirus engines that Postini licenses from McAfee and Authentium.
Its brilliant. End of story.
Tucker,
How are the tour plans coming?
You have two more months before the fun begins. It must be exciting.
Are you having any trouble booking theaters on such short notice?
Any problems with insurance and security?
Who is handling the ticket sales, credit card processing and customer service, etc?
Are you going to hire a real video guy to tape the Q&As or will you just wing it with a phone camera?
Do you still need to have a separate hotel room in each city or will you sleep on the bus with the rest of the guys?
Do you cut your own hair?
Will you be selling and distributing the swag bags yourself and will they be stored on the bus or in a separate van/truck?
How is the trailer coming?
Why have you or the trades not announced the films distributor yet?
Will Bob Gosse be sleeping on the bus, and if so, who gets the Dane Cook suite?
Why are you only nice to people you need stuff from?
Why do you hate Shreveport when it sounded like you loved the place when you were there?
You're not one of those guys who pretends that no matter what happens they are still in the best place possible at all times?
Do the guys at Darko laugh at you for predicting that you will "easily gross more than two hundred million dollars"?
Do you think it's odd that you wrote a manifesto declaring that the public will no longer accept garbage from Hollywood on the very weekend that Transformers II made four hundred million dollars?
Why do you need to read a speech? Can't you remember your own story?
How can I get a hardcopy of your book?
Will the guy that was hiding in the closet with the camera be on the college tour?
Why do you constantly call the people who post on your message board idiots?
How did you read the book Hatchet before it was published?
Why did you scalp hockey tickets for a game that was 1/4 sold?
How is Dave Navarro?
Do you still think this was a good idea?
Parent seems to be talking about Tucker Max and his upcoming movie "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell".