SpamAnti.net in September 2005

News of the world

New Orleans

Spammers and con-men use the same tools to exploit even the suffering of others. At the moment there is a small surge of SPAM pushing all kinds of rumours (like oil shortage) and trying to steal money of nice souls willing to donate to charities. Be warned.

Bayesian filtering of SPAMs

For a long time now, I have been advising individual users to protect themselves with a software based on Bayesian statistical techniques. My prefered PC-Windows solution for this still goes to K9 from keir.net.

But the program at the origin of K9, POPfile, now has a specific Windows version. I am going to evaluate it in order to decide if it should go to my list of prefered downloads.

Detailed analysis here.

Address theft by whois

whois services usually show the email address of the representatives of the company registering a domain name. These addresses are systematically exploited by spammers (mostly, to advertise web hosting services priced higher than the regular competion).

My advice: always use a specialized junk address when registering domain names. Technically, you shouldn't. Actually, nobody has been using these data in years since they are mostly inappropriate, outdated or plain false. there is no risk to redirect all the email arriving to this address to dustbin@mydomain.example.com

Thanks to Fabien.

Paul Graham's plan

A (rather long) paper from Paul Graham about why fight against SPAM will necesarily use content evaluation and preferably Bayesian techniques.

I say the same thing for quite some time, but Paul is much clearer and argumented than I could be.

A plan for SPAM

News of SpamAnti.net

Detailled test of POPfile on SpamAnti.net

All the details are on the special page about POPfile.

• 2005-09-10: Efficiency
• 2005-09-03: First filtering
• 2005-09-02: Installation

The new-again encyclopaedia

Did you notice? I just published a new version/edition of the French encyclopédie du courrier électronique et du SPAM. This is version D0.

Encyclopédie du courrier électronique et du SPAM : version D3 (la plus récente) version D2 version D0 version C7 version C6 version C5 version C0

Bonne lecture.

End of CASPAM

A few words to thank our good friends at Caspam.org for being a shining beacon of light in the French fight against SPAM along the last three years. Unfonrtunately, lack of time and an unscheduled change of server/hosting forced them to close doors. RIP.

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