How target email addresses are protected from harvesting, and
ISP Spam filtering methodology.
The study found that addresses posted on websites were much more likely to being harvested than addresses posted in chat rooms, message boards, USENET
groups and blogs. The report suggests that masking email addresses is a very effective means of keeping addresses from being harvested by Spam bots. The study also found that Spam filters can be 95% effective in removing Spam. As the study concludes, these findings are encouraging news.
However to think that the war against Spam is won would be a fallacy. As The Register suggests in their Spam filters thwart junk mail menace article, junk mail merchants are more than capable of turning up the volume of spam and adopting new tricks in order to circumvent improved anti-spam defences.
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Posted on Wednesday, 30 November 2005 @ 05:23:32 UTC by Paul (1551 reads) [ Trackback ]
