Re: Spam prevention vs mitigation

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

I recall suggesting, only slightly tongue-in-cheek, that if the US
PATRIOT Act, instead of permitting the FBI to read everyone's emails,
had *required* it, the spam problem would have been solved fairly
quickly....

David Gillett, CISSP

 -----Original Message-----
From: rmassanet () gmail com [mailto:rmassanet () gmail com]

> I would use any review article written in the
> last decade to justify that spam reduction can be achieved to a 99%
> rate with computer programs. For example, see: Thiago S. Guzella, Walmir
M.
> Caminhas, A review of machine learning approaches to Spam filtering,
> Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 36, Issue 7, September 2009,
> Pages 10206-10222, ISSN 0957-4174, 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.037.
> (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095741740900181X)
> Receiving 5 or 6 e-mails per user per day is not much, but it should
> be compared with the actual amount of spam you are receiving at the
> server in order to evaluate the performance of your spam filtering
> policy. A 100% performance could be achieved, as several people said
> above, unplugging the cord, or turning the mail server off. Another
> option that has not been considered would be hiring a person, or team,
> depending on the volume of e-mail you receive, to read every single
> e-mail received and manually classify it. I wonder if your bosses
> would want to deal with the extra monetary costs and the privacy
> violation issues that this solution would bring along. Best regards,


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