FYI, Here is a blurb on a new anti-spam competition coming up.
(main site) http://www.ceas.cc/2007/challenge/challenge.html "Overview: * 24-hour email spam competition * August 2nd and 3rd, 2007 (in conjunction with CEAS 2007) * Remote and on-site participants welcome * Live email stream, delivered by standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP, POP) * Server, appliances, proxies, personal filters welcome " (slashdot) http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/11/1531249&from=rss "Entrants will be treated to a torrent of spam and must use their spam filtering technique to filter out as much as possible, while also letting legitimate messages." (newscientist) http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/04/catch-that-spam.html "I wonder if they're going to simulate how a majority of spam is sent these days - from compromised windows botnets. We reject a silly amount of spam sent by botnets because of the IP address (residential machines pretending to be SMTP servers), malformed/spammy SMTP responses and RBLS like spamcop.net. If they don't simulate the TCP/IP level connection and stupid, malformed SMTP transaction, it's not going to be that accurate a test." Sounds like it will be interesting to watch the results. Doug ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
