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<blockquote data-quote="HeffeD" data-source="post: 1928" data-attributes="member: 61"><p>Nice article Chiron!</p><p></p><p>I used to be pretty proactive about spam a few years ago. </p><p></p><p>There was a pretty amazing spam filter called G-Lock Spam Combat that was the most powerful application I could find, and I think I tried all of them. It had bayesian, regex, and white/blacklist filtering, as well as IP blocking by Country, and something they called a Complex Filter which was a bit of a scripting language. All together it was pretty astonishing what this thing could do. </p><p></p><p>I did a lot of beta testing for G-Lock and a lot of my Regex spam filters ended up making their way into the shipped product. I even had a few honeypot accounts that I used to train my bayesian filter. (a feature they added at my suggestion) :blush: </p><p></p><p>At that time, the only type of spam reporting were applications that would send a canned "Hey, cut it out!" type email response to the spammers email address. Which of course, you know how successful that will be! I think SpamCop was just starting out.</p><p></p><p>I think you can still download and use SpamCombat, but I don't think it is in development any longer. </p><p></p><p>These days, like Bogdan, I tend to let Google's spam filters take care of it, which it does very well I have to admit... </p><p></p><p>I'll have to re-read your article and start reporting my spam. :angel:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HeffeD, post: 1928, member: 61"] Nice article Chiron! I used to be pretty proactive about spam a few years ago. There was a pretty amazing spam filter called G-Lock Spam Combat that was the most powerful application I could find, and I think I tried all of them. It had bayesian, regex, and white/blacklist filtering, as well as IP blocking by Country, and something they called a Complex Filter which was a bit of a scripting language. All together it was pretty astonishing what this thing could do. I did a lot of beta testing for G-Lock and a lot of my Regex spam filters ended up making their way into the shipped product. I even had a few honeypot accounts that I used to train my bayesian filter. (a feature they added at my suggestion) :blush: At that time, the only type of spam reporting were applications that would send a canned "Hey, cut it out!" type email response to the spammers email address. Which of course, you know how successful that will be! I think SpamCop was just starting out. I think you can still download and use SpamCombat, but I don't think it is in development any longer. These days, like Bogdan, I tend to let Google's spam filters take care of it, which it does very well I have to admit... I'll have to re-read your article and start reporting my spam. :angel: [/QUOTE]
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