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... blog [read it here ] about a publicly available spam corpus called TREC 2005 (for more information about TREC read here ). ... intended for academic research and development of anti-spam filters and has significant restrictions on its use. This collection is ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-03-09 10:08 - 4 comments

... rage this week is about a new consumer device called the Spam Cube ( www.spamcube.com ). These folks have a box (and it comes in 5 ... AI (artificial intelligence)" algorithm to block spam before it hits your computer. They are charging $150 for the box, but that ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-03-30 19:05 - 3 comments

... street corner. So what's the answer to stopping spam? The sad truth is that to have ANY impact on the amount of spam out there we need to address the root cause of the issue - the economic ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-05-17 15:02 - 5 comments

... email gateways this week. It wasn't focused on spam catch rates and the like, but more about their ability to stop viruses ... positioning was a critical one as differentiation about spam catch rates and techniques went away. I'm not sure I understand how ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-10-06 09:19 - 8 comments

March 23, 2006 Good Morning: On the theme of leading a more balanced life, I am taking a few days off to celebrate my wife's birthday in style. So there will be no Daily Incite on Friday. We'll catch everyone up on Monday. ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-03-23 05:29 - 6 comments

... made what turned out to be a ridiculous prediction that spam would be "solved" within two years. Clearly that hasn't happened, given that 80%+ of Internet e-mail traffic is spam. Sorry Bill you were wrong, which is OK. I don't have a problem with that. ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-01-26 12:02 - 0 comments

... too? So what? - Everyone can now rejoice, since Spam Arrest has won the right to keep their trademark prevailing over the real purveyors of SPAM (as in the fake meat) - Hormel . There is bedlam in the streets of ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2007-11-29 10:20 - 3 comments

... that some comments were inadvertantly deleted by the spam filter on the site. Hopefully we won't have these issues moving ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-03-30 18:59 - 6 comments

... categories such as antivirus, network-level firewalls, spam etc. (I’m sure the maturing of these segments are up to debate, but ... product to work. Clearly AV, firewalls, and probably anti-spam are there. You picked the wrong label Chris Chris, I would love to ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-08-24 16:45 - 5 comments

... the best way to do that? I spent some time in the anti-spam business, and that is all about data. You need to gather good message (ham) and bad messages (spam) and you need to use that data to fine tune your filters and settings and ...

Blog entry - Mike Rothman - 2006-09-26 11:16 - 5 comments