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April 12, 2005
Great general article on spam
Slashdot points to a great article in Scientific American. Nothing in it is groundbreaking, but it is an easy read and is informative. This is the sort of thing that we need more of to educate more of the general public.
One major beef I have with it, and maybe I didn't read closely enough - but where is the mention of the best way to stop spam: "don't buy things from spam."
The Slashdot article points to this recent note on SplitFit used to get around Yahoo's mail filters.
Posted by Eric at April 12, 2005 09:34 AM
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Actually the article isn't that great. The description of Bayes filters is interesting but the parts about SenderID being "a new Internet standard" are inaccurate and biased, and there is no mention of alternate mechanisms such as CSV or DomainKeys. SenderID is a Microsoft technology, and the article was written by three Microsoft researchers. Draw your own conclusions.
Posted by: Pete at April 12, 2005 03:10 PM