Comments on: How Viagra changed my life (Email Evolution) http://www.blackonstuff.com/2007-02-05/how-viagra-changed-my-life-email-evolution/ Blogging about nothing ... Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:51:14 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cristian Dorobantescu http://www.blackonstuff.com/2007-02-05/how-viagra-changed-my-life-email-evolution/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Cristian Dorobantescu Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:57:28 +0000 http://www.blackonstuff.com/2007-02-05/how-viagra-changed-my-life-email-evolution/#comment-13 Actually there are several anti-spam mechanisms that are used right now, both commercial and non-commercial. On the non-commercial side we have: - legislation like the CAN-SPAM law (but that's probably going to end up as the prohibition laws did) - public black lists - "Penny back" initiative proposed by Bill Gates - the cent tax per mail sent - identifying and arresting spammers On the commercial side we also have some approaches based on products that do: - keyword filtering - heuristic filtering or network based anti-spam filters. Anyway, spamming is highly lucrative, and as long as there are people making money from it, no matter what, we will still have spammers. Actually there are several anti-spam mechanisms that are used right now, both commercial and non-commercial.

On the non-commercial side we have:
- legislation like the CAN-SPAM law (but that’s probably going to end up as the prohibition laws did)
- public black lists
- “Penny back” initiative proposed by Bill Gates – the cent tax per mail sent
- identifying and arresting spammers

On the commercial side we also have some approaches based on products that do:
- keyword filtering
- heuristic filtering
or network based anti-spam filters.

Anyway, spamming is highly lucrative, and as long as there are people making money from it, no matter what, we will still have spammers.

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