[vox-tech] spam blocking ideas

Rod Roark vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Fri, 14 Dec 2001 13:11:44 -0800 (PST)


If I understand the description at the web site correctly, it
seems ill-conceived.  They are depending on signatures computed
from individual spam messages.  Seems like it can be defeated
by either (a) slightly varying each message, or (b) spamming
a whole bunch of people at the same time.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

Ted Deppner said:
> figured I'd post a link to razor.sourceforge.net
>
> razor is to email spam what CancelMoose (and others) where to usenet spam.
>
> It's a distibuted spam recognition and blocking system, that looks promising.  I've
> been watching it for a few months, but haven't tried it out yet.
>
> Anyone tried this out yet?
>
> --
> Ted Deppner
> http://www.psyber.com/~ted/