CEAS spam filter bakeoff
- IT TOPICS:Emerging Technology, Enterprise Software & Services, Internet, Networking, Security, Servers & Data Center
The fourth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) is planning a bakeoff this year. In the CEAS 2007 Live Spam Challenge, the organizers hope to simultaneously inject a live stream of spam and legitimate email into several spam filters over a 24 hour period.
However, fair comparative testing of spam control technologies is extremely difficult -- by some measures, it's impossible. Because some promising filter techniques rely on examining the real-time behavior of the sending machine, it proves tricky to provide the exact same stream of email to all the filters at the same time.
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