RE: regarding spam...

[Max Enders <Max.Enders () watchguard com>]

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Marcus,

Vipul's Razor is what you're describing. Information can be found here:

http://razor.sourceforge.net/

Regards,
Max

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus J. Ranum [mailto:mjr () nfr com] 
> Sent: March 29, 2002 6:45 AM
> To: firewall-wizards () nfr com
> Subject: [fw-wiz] regarding spam...
>
>
> Out of 30 messages in the input queue yesterday 30 were spam. 
> 27 of those were korean or chinese.
>
> I'm trying to think of ways to deal with spam E-mails and
> have been kicking around a few ideas with some friends of
> mine. Most of the truly effective ways we can imagine to
> deal with spam rely on spam-knowledge propagation: in other 
> words a human being someplace in the mix says "this is spam" 
> and based on that determination causes the offending message 
> to disappear from all mailboxes.
>
> So, a side effect of this approach is a 'web of trust' with 
> respect to noise email. :) Suppose I tell the mail system "I 
> trust Dodge Mumford's judgement regarding what is spam" then 
> my mail system will automatically move into my spam folder 
> all emails that Dodge moves into his spam folder. We might 
> choose to look out for eachother in a reflexive relationship, 
> or we might choose to additionally trust an outside source, etc, etc.
>
> It occurs to me that this would be pretty easy to implement, 
> with a bit of small extra kludgery. You could build it right 
> into an imap server by having it apply the extra processing 
> when someone moves a message into a folder called "spam" - in 
> fact this way _one_ person in an organization could keep an 
> up-to-date set of Eudora filters that would be leveraged by 
> everyone in that spam trust ring.
>
> Does anyone know if this is already being done? Does anyone
> see any really compelling reason it wouldn't work?
>
> mjr. 
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> Marcus J. Ranum          Chief Technology Officer, NFR Security, Inc.
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