I had a thought today about reducing spam in my inbox, since the current mechanism of scoring seems to be falling short lately. The most effective blocking measure I’ve seen is to add the IP addresses of servers sending the spam to a black hole list, but with spam bot nets running rampant, the list of IPs is growing faster than they can be detected. What can we do to speed up detection?

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I recently posted some ideas about Reducing Spam. Since then, the gears kept turning and I’ve gotten some more ideas on how make this defensive system a little more proactive, and eventually start to slow down the spam networks. As I mentioned in my last article, the spammers are using distributed networks of computers to send the spam, so it will take distributed networks of mail servers to overcome the onslaught.

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