spam fighters

Spam Fighters

According to wikipedia, in the year 1987 there are about 600 spam emails, in 2005 the number increase to 30 billion per day.
In 2007 there are about 90 billion spam emails per day.
Even though some of the spam emails are not harmful, it is a waste of time deleting it and it's annoying.
Most integrated spam blockers automatically place spam or suspected spam into a separate folder for you to review or eliminate later.
Newer spam blockers can learn to recognize what is spam and what isn't, and deletes the unwanted mail before it reaches your inbox.
Spam emails are usually aimed to advertise something, scam, or sending out a virus or trojan mail.
Hijacking is the act of relaying spam through a third-party system without permission.
CAN SPAM is the name a bill signed into federal law by U.
Bush in late 2003, intended to make spamming a federal crime within the United States.
Many spammers are actually well-meaning but clueless newbies to the on-line world.
Watch out for hardcore spammers pretending to be clewbies.
Different spam softwares have different methods of blocking spam and identify spam.
A bayesian filter is a form of content-based spam filter named for its application of the Reverend Thomas Bayes' famous theorem of conditional probabilities.
The most often cited treatise on bayesian mail filtering is Paul Graham's "a plan for spam," found at http://www.

Spam Fighters