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If the site grows big enough, some significant part of spam would be easy to filter out statistically.
by mojuba 19y ago
If the site grows big enough, some significant part of spam would be easy to filter out statistically.
- nickb 19y agoEasy? Please enlighten me what's so easy about filtering spam these days...
- mojuba 19y agoThe same way as GMail and other large email providers. From my experience with GMail, its accuracy is near 100% and their heuristics is mostly based on statistical data, e.g. they probably detect large volumes of mail coming from one IP and having similar links, etc.
- michaelneale 19y agoYes. One of the nice things about a smart hosted gmail system is that when spam happens, they will see a corresponding flood of spam reports coming in over a certain amount of time, so that would make it much easier to stem the flood of spam. I am sure there is quite a lot to it which we will never know, but it does seem to be the best out there.