Re: 95% of User Generated Content is spam or malicious

[Dan Kaminsky <dan () doxpara com>]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
> [ Please do not send redundant copies of on-list traffic. ]
>
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:15:43AM -0500, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > My sense is that SPAM filtering is ghettoizing, i.e. there's a very
> > small community of extraordinarily miserable people whose job it now
> > is to deal with SPAM for the rest of their users.  They've been so
> > successful, even at 98%, that now users have NO tolerance for SPAM.
> > In other words, the SPAM war appears to be won, nobody seems to know
> > it's still being fought.
>
> First, the correct term is "spam", never "SPAM".  The former refers to
> unsolicited bulk email, the latter refers to a Hormel product.

Correct.  My apologies to Hormel.

> Second, 99% of the people doing anti-spam work are quite incompetent.

This is true.  That's why I expect everybody to outsource to the few
people who aren't incompetent -- Postini, Google, etc.  There are a
few organizations that can do competent spam filtering in-house, but
users are now spoiled with their zero-spam public email folders.

It's better now than it was, even though the war is nastier and more expensive.

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