Comments on: spam, human one http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/ weblog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:48:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1.2 by: IludiumPhosdex http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2204 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 21:38:05 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2204 How can I recommend adding my own blog to the BlogsNow tracker? How can I recommend adding my own blog to the BlogsNow tracker?

]]> by: chaoskaizer http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2161 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:20:56 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2161 Hi andreas, what a wonderful webservice. Im a virgin blogsnow. I just notice blogsnow while searching on Y! sitexplorer. I really like the trends for each keywords. If you dont mind, how is the blogs list order? by date, content, pr. IMO google did the right thing to twart all the payperpost blogger. to much poison and fabrication in blogsphere is something not to be admire. Hi andreas, what a wonderful webservice. Im a virgin blogsnow. I just notice blogsnow while searching on Y! sitexplorer. I really like the trends for each keywords. If you dont mind, how is the blogs list order? by date, content, pr.

IMO google did the right thing to twart all the payperpost blogger. to much poison and fabrication in blogsphere is something not to be admire.

]]> by: Jonas http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2160 Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:18:42 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2160 Cool. Show us the source :) Cool. Show us the source :)

]]> by: Andreas Wacker http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2148 Sat, 01 Sep 2007 03:40:18 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2148 How spam detection works? Hm, it's a mix of things. Basically whenever there I see spam in BlogsNow I try to get rid of it, when I have the time. Not by selecting each item and flagging it. Since spammers spam by the millions you loose the manual battle anyway. I try to find the pattern. The thing that is inherent to that kind of spam. Spam is machine generated. Which is also it's weakness. If I remember the folklore right it was the habit of the Wehrmacht to start and end their enigma encoded transmissions in a repetitive and predictable way that allowed the amazing people in Bletchley Park to end the war at least a year early by decoding what the Germans thought to be unbreakable. Spam detection in BlogsNow is a super simple problem compared to this, but it works on the same principles: Spam originates with an intent. It is made to camouflage it's intentions. But there is still a pattern. And, interestingly, mostly the whole thing is rather crude and pretty easy to detect. BlogsNow will always react on the easy kind of spam: the one that goes out in brute force and poisons the Meme pool in a rather distinct manner. Enough Amplitude to make a radar blip. That does make detecting spam actually quiet easy. So far. Maybe tomorrow I loose the battle. Who knows? How spam detection works? Hm, it’s a mix of things. Basically whenever there I see spam in BlogsNow I try to get rid of it, when I have the time. Not by selecting each item and flagging it. Since spammers spam by the millions you loose the manual battle anyway. I try to find the pattern. The thing that is inherent to that kind of spam. Spam is machine generated. Which is also it’s weakness. If I remember the folklore right it was the habit of the Wehrmacht to start and end their enigma encoded transmissions in a repetitive and predictable way that allowed the amazing people in Bletchley Park to end the war at least a year early by decoding what the Germans thought to be unbreakable. Spam detection in BlogsNow is a super simple problem compared to this, but it works on the same principles: Spam originates with an intent. It is made to camouflage it’s intentions. But there is still a pattern. And, interestingly, mostly the whole thing is rather crude and pretty easy to detect. BlogsNow will always react on the easy kind of spam: the one that goes out in brute force and poisons the Meme pool in a rather distinct manner. Enough Amplitude to make a radar blip. That does make detecting spam actually quiet easy. So far. Maybe tomorrow I loose the battle. Who knows?

]]> by: Gunnar Helsing http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2147 Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:22:10 +0000 http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2007/05/21/spam-human-one/#comment-2147 Hi, thanks for an excellent service! Would you care to share how spam detection works? Hi, thanks for an excellent service! Would you care to share how spam detection works?

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