All 2 entries tagged Spam Filter

Filtering Spam from the University of Warwick's mail relay

I have spotted that IT Services in processing all mail for viruses also Tag the message if it suspects that it is spam. See the example and rules below. (These has been inserted as a picture because all the asterisks were confusing the blog editor.)

Robert McGonigle : 31 May 2007 15:00 |  Tags: ITS Rules Spam Spam Filter Spam Filters |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Spam–filter algorithm rule.

I have observed that behind the spammers almost plausible senders name the underlying sending email address is far more complicated. Because the lists of barred email addresses continued to grow each spam address is only short lived so thousands are machine generated.

My rule: If an email address has truly random characters it is spam.

So spam filters should just pass the fields of email addresses through a password strength test. If the result is strong it should be labelled as spam. (They might like to add a pile of Polish names to the trusted list.)

Robert McGonigle : 30 May 2007 10:36 |  Tags: Spam Spam Filter |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem