After reading this thread, I had to go check the site. It is really bad. Maybe someone should tell him that when you emphasize everything, you emphasize nothing...
Maybe, but he has to consider at least the following:
What to include (innocent words)
What not to include (incriminating words)
What mailserver to use (some servernames are very spammy in my corpus)
And he still needs to get the message across. At least if he is really trying to sell something and not just say "hi, this site is neato http://example.com"
Just about every filter out there can handle html comments. The people behind POPFile are constantly trying to improve the detection and removal of such tricks. In addition to that, the current development version can handle words that have been s p a c e d w^i^t^h a*l*l k_i_n_d_s of weird ways, and other tricks. There is active discussion on the forums about how some spam got trough the filter, and ways to counter it.
And every one is available for Windows. Game selection is not the reason to choose Linux. There are no decent games for Linux that are not available for Windows as well.
Spammers can't use probability based filters to test their spams, because the filters are personal. They can, however, use CSS and tables in HTML mail to format bogus-looking messages human-readable.
I second that. It's fairly easy to set up, runs on multiple platforms, and it has a real installer for us point'n'drool Windows folks.
It works as a proxy between your POP client and any POP-servers you want to use. It analyzes incoming messages and classifies them to different buckets. It can either alter the subject of the message or add a X-Text-Classification: -header to be used by your POP client for filtering. And you can have more than two buckets, so it can differentiate between more kinds of mail than just "spam" and "not spam"
And it is free software! OOOOOOOH! But the most important thing is that it works.
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Try to guess how I found the text?
People might not have noticed, but there are the correct captions under every picture.
It's just that the text is black. And on a black background.
No, Asterix and Obelix are friends.
Mickey and Goofy are friends.
Homer and Bart are father and son. And Homer hates Bart.
And I am getting sick of the constant clutter of viruses cluttering up my inbox.
But hey, we all have our problems.
Half life was pretty universally thought a very good game. If you had the source, and the resources, how would you develop it?
Would people still play it, after they had beaten the original Half Life, and you had done an incremental change to it?
And I am talking about Half Life, not its mods...
DUH! Of course there is that hidden rule.
After reading this thread, I had to go check the site. It is really bad. Maybe someone should tell him that when you emphasize everything, you emphasize nothing...
No we shouldn't.
What the hell are you doing home already?
You should go and plug all the other holes in those firewalls and install the other service packs that have come out during the last 6 months!
- What to include (innocent words)
- What not to include (incriminating words)
- What mailserver to use (some servernames are very spammy in my corpus)
And he still needs to get the message across. At least if he is really trying to sell something and not just say "hi, this site is neato http://example.com"offset a few .99 words with several .01 words.
.01 words I have in my corpus.
Name several
This always comes up.
Just about every filter out there can handle html comments. The people behind POPFile are constantly trying to improve the detection and removal of such tricks. In addition to that, the current development version can handle words that have been
s p a c e d
w^i^t^h
a*l*l
k_i_n_d_s
of weird ways, and other tricks. There is active discussion on the forums about how some spam got trough the filter, and ways to counter it.
Not once has anything that begins with "Sorry, this has to be said" had to be said.
What good will just responding to spam do? You have to buy everything advertised in spams. Only terrorists fail to do that.
And you could do even better by forwarding the spam to everyone on you addressbook.
And every one is available for Windows. Game selection is not the reason to choose Linux. There are no decent games for Linux that are not available for Windows as well.
Is that free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech?
+1, Sneakers reference!
Seriously, which is better:
a) Ability to get online again
OR...
b) Sex with a mare?
Spammers can't use probability based filters to test their spams, because the filters are personal. They can, however, use CSS and tables in HTML mail to format bogus-looking messages human-readable.
If an ISP blocks all outgoing traffic to port 25, and they clearly mention this in their contract, why would it be a free speech issue?
Short answer: Because you teach your filter what is spam. And everybody else teachers their personal filter.
So if your personal mail often has "penis" in it, the filter learns that it is not a good indicator for spam.
I use POPFile http://popfile.sourceforge.net/, and I have noticed that one of the best indicators seems to be certain server names.
Well /you just keep on staring. That game is available for Windows too, you know...
I know I'll be waving the trolls' flag in that match. Trolls can be annoying, but they are nothing compared to spammers.
I second that. It's fairly easy to set up, runs on multiple platforms, and it has a real installer for us point'n'drool Windows folks.
It works as a proxy between your POP client and any POP-servers you want to use. It analyzes incoming messages and classifies them to different buckets. It can either alter the subject of the message or add a X-Text-Classification: -header to be used by your POP client for filtering. And you can have more than two buckets, so it can differentiate between more kinds of mail than just "spam" and "not spam"
And it is free software! OOOOOOOH! But the most important thing is that it works.
There may only be a few decent Windows games, but there are no decent Linux games.