[Hidden-tech] An Idea about Email

[Scott Reed]

Jim,
I think your approach can identify a lot of spam, but if I was one of 
your users I would be very unhappy if it falsely identifies more than 
one (or perhaps two) non-spam emails as spam per month. I suggest you 
test your idea out and see how many false positives you get. If it 
doesn't work as you hope, there are a lot of people working on this 
problem using sophisticated methods to regularly publish white- and 
black-lists that you can obtain for free and use with free, well-built, 
server-based spam-filtering software to identify most spam without false 
positives. Have you had a chance to look at the Slamming Spam 
<http://www.slammingspam.com> book yet? As someone interested in this 
problem, I think you would find it enlightening.
  Scott

ussailis at shaysnet.com wrote:
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>
> But this is not what I am talking about. 
>
> I see it on the small (really small) ISP receiving end. Many messages with
> the same stuff, same header, same text, etc. Yes, much, much more spam is
> randomized, has a different fake header, etc. But some does not.
>
> I also think that the number where one dumps it as spam is highly dependent
> on the number of users a given ISP's server has. 4 or 5 would work for me.
> Perhaps 2017 is the number for someone else. That's a TBD.
>
>
> Jim Ussailis
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