[Hidden-tech] So much junk mail!

[Roy A Cohen]

Tim, you are very correct in your spam filtering assessment - and it is 
truly a losing battle.

I know of situations where the only solution was to start up a new email 
address and simply abandon the old one.

There is an article I happened on just today talking about how even 
Gmail is losing its grip on the spam war:
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>     Steps to Defeating SPAM
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> PostedbyFraud Online 
> <https://fraudswatch.wordpress.com/author/atum1974/>onJune 12, 2015 
> <https://fraudswatch.wordpress.com/2015/06/12/steps-to-defeating-spam/>inScammers 
> <https://fraudswatch.wordpress.com/category/scammers/>
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> Gmail SPAM filter іѕ fighting а losing battle. I аm dоіng ѕоmе 
> ANTI-SPAM testing. Fоr thе раѕt 4 months I hаvе bееn vеrу public wіth 
> mу Gmail email address, signing uр fоr newsletters, uѕіng іt оn forms, 
> аnd sharing іt publicly оn forums, blogs, аnd discussion boards. I 
> expected tо gеt spammed to death, that’s еxасtlу what’s beginning tо 
> happen. Evеrу day, I receive аbоut 20 junk emails. I knоw thаt іѕ 
> small, but fоr ѕоmеоnе whо іѕ uѕе tо nеvеr ѕееіng spam іn thеіr inbox, 
> it’s а quіtе bit.
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Despite everything, several of my clients are using Symantec's cloud 
email service. Yes, it costs some money but relatively little. Yes, 
there are certainly humans there dealing with their filters. But, on the 
whole, the product has made a very significant difference in their, and 
my, email inboxes. The best thing about it is once set up you don't need 
to do anything other than occasionally glance, if you wish, at their 
email of quarantined messages. You may miss one or two legit messages, 
but you know what, if it is important enough the sender should follow up 
with another email, or, G-d forbid, call your phone to follow up!!

I happen to be a distributor for this cloud product; inquiries always 
welcome!

-Roy
413-223-9007

On 07/21/2015 02:44 PM, Tim Boudreau wrote:
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>     My big problem with every antispam system I've ever
>     tried--including GMail is inaccuracy in filtering.
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> Any system that tries to detect spam is going to be making a set of 
> trade-offs - either erring on the side of false-negatives (you get 
> spam in your inbox), or false-positives (legitimate mail gets filtered 
> as spam). It's an evolutionary war-of-attrition - any characteristic 
> that reliably identifies an email as spam is one spammers will change 
> so it doesn't work anymore.
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> The most effective solutions, such as GMail's, crowd-source the 
> identification of spam so that relatively few users see any given spam 
> message - that at least acknowledges the reality that there are no 
> defining characteristics of what-is-spam (and even there, different 
> people have different definitions of that - a one-size-fits-all 
> solution is not going to work).  But even there, it's still a war of 
> attrition, since there are ways to make emails differ enough that they 
> won't be identified as "the same message".
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> It's simply not a 100% solvable problem (short of paying someone to 
> read your inbox and manually filter the spam) - mainly you need to 
> look at the characteristics of the different ways of mitigating it, 
> and decide what you care about (some spam but few false-negatives, or 
> no spam and some lost messages) and pick a solution based on that.  
> There are no silver bullets.
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> -Tim
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