http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/09/16/weekend-spam-update en-us 40 Technology and Other Fun Stuff <p>Between midnight Friday and 11:00am Monday, I received over 160 spams. SpamAssassin stopped all but five of them. SpamAssassin misidentified 2 legitimate messages as spam; both were unimportant mailing list messages from a user whose site is frequently used to send spam. (If I needed to correspond with this user on a regular basis, I'd add his name to my whitelist--or help educate him.)</p> <p>If you don't need a public e-mail address, let me suggest a new rule: <i>Never</i> give your real e-mail address to anybody you don't know. This includes online vendors. If necessary, use a throwaway webmail address instead.</p> <p>I also devoted quite a bit of work to repacking <a href='http://sourceforge.net/projects/judy/'>libJudy</a>, HP's ultra-optimized associative array library. This library is used by <a href='/stories/2002/09/13/bogofilter' title='Bogofilter: A New Spam Filter'>bogofilter</a>, Eric Raymond's promising new spam filter.</p> <p>Content-based spam filtering is extremely good, and is improving rapidly. Just don't send me any e-mail about <b>hot stock picks</b> involving <b>real estate</b> companies in <b>Nigeria</b> that specialize in <b>toner cartridge</b> factories, and there shouldn't be any problem.</p> Mon, 16 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0000 urn:uuid:20f5a224-7170-4fbd-96c0-34da961ff051 Eric http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/09/16/weekend-spam-update Spam http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/trackback/27