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It could be a crowd-sourced effort -- e-mails that are spam you mark as spam and upload to some repo that is maintained by someone (a la Adblock). You keep your
by clicks 13y ago
It could be a crowd-sourced effort -- e-mails that are spam you mark as spam and upload to some repo that is maintained by someone (a la Adblock). You keep your filters updated, and run your e-mail against the filters file.
- ricardobeat 13y agoThat's how current spam filters work, every mail server reports back to some central directories which keep tab on IPs, common subjects, keywords and other characteristics used to calculate spam scores. The trick is doing that without giving out access to message content to third-parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spamhaus_Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spamhaus_Project
- rdl 13y agoYou can free ride -- receive the spam directory but not contribute. As long as your mail is representative of the overall mail corpus, that works out fine.
- eru 13y agoThat would be trivially defeated by sending everyone a slightly different spam email. (And if your encryption doesn't produce totally different files for slight changes in plaintext, it doesn't deserve that name.)
- ricardobeat 13y agoI think you're replying to the wrong comment tree. Spammers already do this today, by including your name and other data in the message, and varying the wording, but that is not enough to fool the spam blockers, and there are diminishing rewards as your addresses/IPs begin to get marked as source of spam regardless of the content.
- eru 13y agoNo, it was the right one. I was thinking about the grand-grand-fathers suggestion in relation to encryption.