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Wednesday, November 27, 2002 |
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"CipherTrust wants garbage -- e-mail garbage to be exact. It wants every e-mail from Nigeria promising millions and every one of those e-mail solicitations for 'free' pornography, Viagra and adult services. The folks at CipherTrust aren't e-mail masochists. They're out to build the Dewey Decimal System of 'spam.' The Alpharetta, Ga.-based security company will use the detritus of offensive e-mail marketing to open an online library -- www.spamarchive.org -- that programmers and researchers can use in the never-ending fight against spam. The company hopes to amass at least 10 million spam samples within a year..." [Washington Post]
This news is a few days old but I didn't post it then so thought I would now. Sounds like this probably will become the world's greatest collection of spam samples. Spam filtration can be done extremely effectively without such a huge sample, however, at least with today's spams. |
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