More about the CEAS spam control bake-off
- IT TOPICS:Applications, Emerging Technology, Enterprise Apps, Security
Last week, I wrote about the CEAS 2007 Live Spam Challenge (CEAS is the Conference on Email and Anti-Spam). I opined that fair comparative testing of spam control technologies is extremely difficult, especially when behavioral analysis techniques such as greylisting and OS fingerprinting are part of the spam control technology mix.
I wanted to clarify that the test isn't intended to evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of existing spam control products (that would be extremely difficult to do fairly, as last week's post pointed out). The intention is to compare some promising new content-based filtering techniques -- techniques that might be employed as components in a cocktail of techniques used by a spam control product.
More at richij.com, including quotes from Gordon Cormack, one of the test's co-organizers...
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