Jonathan A. Zdziarski has been fighting spam for eight years, and has spent a significant portion of the past two years working on the next generation spam filter DSPAM, with up to 99.985% accuracy. Zdziarski lectures widely on the topic of spam.
Unlike older spam filters, in which the author programs the characteristics of spam, statistical filtering automatically chooses the characteristics (or 'features') of spam and nonspam directly from each e-mail. Two years from now, when spam has evolved in content, statistical filters ...Oct. 3, 2005 03:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,100
