Comments on: Assembling the Spam Puzzle http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 02:30:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mike Dailey http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/comment-page-1/#comment-773064 Mike Dailey Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:42:20 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/#comment-773064 I think the key to the spam problem was mentioned in the article. Unless organizations begin to cooperate in the tagging and filtering of spam email we will continue to see spam as an "unstoppable" problem. Organizations deal with spam in an autonomous fashion. They simply block it for their own sake, with no mechanism to share data and statistics with other organizations. If a solution could be developed where the spam filtering engines report valid spam email to some type of "clearinghouse", which could then pass this information to other filtering engines, we could begin to construct an effective means of impacting the amount of spam we see on a daily basis. This isn't a perfect solution, but if the solution could impact a high percentage of spam it could make the effort to produce the unwanted email less lucrative. -Mike D http://www.daileymuse.com I think the key to the spam problem was mentioned in the article. Unless organizations begin to cooperate in the tagging and filtering of spam email we will continue to see spam as an “unstoppable” problem.

Organizations deal with spam in an autonomous fashion. They simply block it for their own sake, with no mechanism to share data and statistics with other organizations. If a solution could be developed where the spam filtering engines report valid spam email to some type of “clearinghouse”, which could then pass this information to other filtering engines, we could begin to construct an effective means of impacting the amount of spam we see on a daily basis.

This isn’t a perfect solution, but if the solution could impact a high percentage of spam it could make the effort to produce the unwanted email less lucrative.

-Mike D
http://www.daileymuse.com

]]> By: Spam Blocker Michael http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/comment-page-1/#comment-470225 Spam Blocker Michael Tue, 03 Jun 2008 03:31:16 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/#comment-470225 Spam is not much of a nuisance for end users any more . Google or Hotmail accounts protect account good enough from spam. The problem lies more with the provider who has to filter all that junk. CPU Time and diskaccess can spike when processing millions of junk email. Our service at www.mytrashmail.com received up to 2 millions junk email per day. You can imagine that our CPU and disk access is on its peak. For Yahoo, Google or Hotmail this is even a greater problem, they receive billions of junk every day. Personally I like Yahoos approach (Domain Keys) very much. Spam is not much of a nuisance for end users any more . Google or Hotmail accounts protect account good enough from spam.

The problem lies more with the provider who has to filter all that junk. CPU Time and diskaccess can spike when processing millions of junk email.

Our service at http://www.mytrashmail.com received up to 2 millions junk email per day. You can imagine that our CPU and disk access is on its peak. For Yahoo, Google or Hotmail this is even a greater problem, they receive billions of junk every day.

Personally I like Yahoos approach (Domain Keys) very much.

]]> By: darin http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/comment-page-1/#comment-469914 darin Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:17:36 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/#comment-469914 I dont know what the deal is. At my office I have implemented an anti-spam email solution and we literally do not have a spam problem. I've run web forums before and I never had a problem with spammers because the software ive selected had proper verifacation and spam protection. For companies like yahoo to have such a hard time dealing with spam is a joke. It really goes to show that they have have not taken the problem seriously. I dont know what the deal is.
At my office I have implemented an anti-spam email solution and we literally do not have a spam problem.
I’ve run web forums before and I never had a problem with spammers because the software ive selected had proper verifacation and spam protection.

For companies like yahoo to have such a hard time dealing with spam is a joke. It really goes to show that they have have not taken the problem seriously.

]]> By: sally http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/comment-page-1/#comment-469466 sally Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:41:58 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2008/06/02/assembling-the-spam-puzzle/#comment-469466 And its ironic that you write about this - just as the Blog Herald seems to have 'upped' its anti-spam comemnts game and comments I write now seem to always been earmarked as spam... It puts one off writing a decent comment to an article to then be warned it has to be approved, and then return a day later to see it was never posted. What's the point in writing a comment? And its ironic that you write about this – just as the Blog Herald seems to have ‘upped’ its anti-spam comemnts game and comments I write now seem to always been earmarked as spam… It puts one off writing a decent comment to an article to then be warned it has to be approved, and then return a day later to see it was never posted. What’s the point in writing a comment?

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