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Kellan — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 23:40:00 +0000

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Random gibberish, and yet 100,000 years of pattern matching expertise refuses to let it go that easily, finding primordial poetry, and humor.

Has anyone wondered what the extreme, cut throat Darwinian pressure of the spam wars might be evolving?

And what kind of AI could such a crucible produce I wonder? Vicious and deceptive? Slippery, polymorphic and rentless? Recent samples seem to suggest a cryptic, Delphian source of Zen koans.

Using Javascript to fight comment spam

Kellan — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 22:39:58 +0000

I’m trying a slight variant of this on LM, let me know how it works.

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/11/29/spam-stopgap-extreme/

nerding out: spamassassin cutoff

Kellan — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 10:43:58 +0000

statistical analysis of spamassassin cutoffs

http://www.livejournal.com/users/evan_tech/84216.html

Thoughts about spam filtering and cultural norms of communication

Kellan — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 01:51:21 +0000

I’ve also had false positives on the email from Uruguayans, which would make sense, they are mostly decedents of italian immigrants.

http://www.anarchogeek.com/archives/000426.html

Now available “The Spam Letters” by Jonathan Land

Kellan — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:36:11 +0000

Who would have though that The Omen was launching pad for fame and fortun?

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270321/

postgrey: ‘greylisting’ for postfix

Kellan — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:25:06 +0000

Return transient errors to high volume mail sources. Ted has a graph + Debian init script.

http://www.sauria.com/blog/2004/07/05#1004

Happy Birthday, Spam

Kellan — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 21:14:59 +0000

On 5 March 1994, a message was posted to some Usenet newsgroups by a law firm called Canter and Siegel, advertising their services for the U.S. Green Card lottery.

http://www.karchner.com/update/archives/000515.html