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My modest proposal to filter out spam

kranky

kranky

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Spammers know how to get around software designed to block spam, and that's a losing battle. On my primary email address I get over 100 spam emails a day, and my ISP's software only flags about half as spam.

So do you think this idea would work?

Have an email addy that's only used to attract spam. Use some automated software to put it out there on all the sites that collect and sell email address. You want as much spam as possible going to that addy.

Then on your machine, you have an email client which picks up email for that addy and your primary email address. When it detects the same message has been sent to both addresses, it deletes both messages.

Disadvantage: more time spent downloading spam
Advantage: you wouldn't see them

I don't really care that it would take longer to d/l email, for me it would be worth it just to have all the spam removed automatically.
 
the only problem is this:

most spam is randomly generated by circulating spyware and virii/trojans

The reason why your spam blocker doesnt catch the spam, is it usually
a)has a randomly generated subject
b)has little or no text body (mostly jpeg pictures, which are not filterable by content)
c)is from a randomly generated fake email address (spoofing)


so the chances of getting a completely identical message in both accounts is slim to none.
because if even 1 character is different, your method wouldnt work.


the ebst way to fight spam, is to make sure you have a fully updated antivirus and spyware client on every PC. It must have legal copy of windows so that it can have all the windows updates.
Network administrators must secure their servers so that they cannot be taken control of and used as email spam servers.

 
The big thing in spam I am seeing now is to put html between letters so spam filters cannot see Viagra, it see V<html></html>I<html></html>...

Each is different though, so I don't know if it would work since it's randomly generating these bodies.
 
The emails aren't identical? Crap. I never analyzed them byte for byte but it seemed as though I regularly see the same spam show up in different email accounts.

We never had this kind of spam problem with plain text emails. I wish we'd go back to that (using attachments when necessary for binary data).
 
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