"End-users cannot install FairUCE at this time; end-users, please direct your mail administrator to this page."
Even though this is an interesting new tool, most e-mail users are tied to whatever backend their ISP supplies, which is a shame... Someone should whip up an end-user desktop version.
Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of the server version though...
So how will your auto-responders etc tell the difference between bad guys and good guys?
Well, in his article he explains that the spam filters would be tied into a distributed database that keeps track of spamvertized links. The filter would check to see if a link in the email was in the database first and, if so, spider it X number of times (where X is a configurable value).
I dind't make this stuff up, but it seems like a workable idea to try, anyway.
Paul Graham wrote an article about this regarding spam filters that fight back. If everyone installs a spam filter that detects spam and then automatically crawls any links listed in the spam, it would bring their web servers to their knees.
I know it sounds heartless, but as a group, blacklists are becoming less-useful by the minute.
If they were all to disappear today, it would only speed the adoption of much more valuable tools against spam, namely bayesian-type filters that are far more effective.
This is an act of desparation on the part of spammers that proves the anti-spammers are winning the battle.
Fortunately, the next phase of the "war" is moving away from blacklists and focusing on technologies that are user-based and user-specific, such as Bayesian filtering. There is no level of DDoS attack that can stop that battle.
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Even though this is an interesting new tool, most e-mail users are tied to whatever backend their ISP supplies, which is a shame... Someone should whip up an end-user desktop version.
Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of the server version though...
I couldn't resist the GSoD tho. ;)
Great, now I can be eaten by a grue on multiple platforms. Grue screen of death anyone?
This review was up in April of 2003... not quite what I would consider new.
However, Dan's Data rocks so I guess this is okay.
So how will your auto-responders etc tell the difference between bad guys and good guys?
Well, in his article he explains that the spam filters would be tied into a distributed database that keeps track of spamvertized links. The filter would check to see if a link in the email was in the database first and, if so, spider it X number of times (where X is a configurable value).
I dind't make this stuff up, but it seems like a workable idea to try, anyway.
Here's a link to the article.
http://www.paulgraham.com/ffb.html
I know it sounds heartless, but as a group, blacklists are becoming less-useful by the minute.
If they were all to disappear today, it would only speed the adoption of much more valuable tools against spam, namely bayesian-type filters that are far more effective.
This is an act of desparation on the part of spammers that proves the anti-spammers are winning the battle. Fortunately, the next phase of the "war" is moving away from blacklists and focusing on technologies that are user-based and user-specific, such as Bayesian filtering. There is no level of DDoS attack that can stop that battle.
How long till chess players are banned from wearing watches, because Deep Blue et al will be shrunken to the size of a pea?