Comments on: Bill Gates gives SPAM 2 more years http://news.techwhack.com/509-bill-gates-spam News from the Tech and IT World Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:03:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Stephen http://news.techwhack.com/509-bill-gates-spam#comment-496 Stephen Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:57:11 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/509/bill-gates-spam/#comment-496 Bill should call up Frontbridge technologies and buy them out. My company has been using them for 3 years now as a managed filtering system. We have not had any fales positives in three years and we get no spam at all. Our daily load of emails averages in the millions. Bill should call up Frontbridge technologies and buy them out. My company has been using them for 3 years now as a managed filtering system. We have not had any fales positives in three years and we get no spam at all. Our daily load of emails averages in the millions.

]]> By: Sushubh http://news.techwhack.com/509-bill-gates-spam#comment-495 Sushubh Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:48:42 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/509/bill-gates-spam/#comment-495 its a tough call. popups have disappeared because of browser tools, but websites would start using css based layer popups to overcome that. same thing would happen with spammers. they would evolve. i agree, the solution is not that easy... its a tough call. popups have disappeared because of browser tools, but websites would start using css based layer popups to overcome that. same thing would happen with spammers. they would evolve. i agree, the solution is not that easy…

]]> By: No More False Positives http://news.techwhack.com/509-bill-gates-spam#comment-494 No More False Positives Mon, 22 Nov 2004 01:33:17 +0000 http://news.techwhack.com/509/bill-gates-spam/#comment-494 Imagine if Bill had said the same thing about computer viruses ten years ago. I think I recall him saying that. Sorry, folks, the spam problem is not going away any time soon. SenderID and DomainKeys merely provide a way to validate that a sender is sending from the correct server for a particular domain. Spammers account for 95% of SenderID users worldwide -- so it's not possible to use SenderID to distinguish a spammer from a legitimate sender. What these technologies do make possible is an end to false positives from bulk senders such as Microsoft, because they allow for messages from these important domains to be trusted. Alas, even if everyone switched to a completely whitelist-based model, we would still get spam. We'd get it from our friends' compromised PCs. The real solution to spam is to kill all the spammers. But that requires a police state. So as long as we're living in a free world, spam will continue to be a problem. Imagine if Bill had said the same thing about computer viruses ten years ago. I think I recall him saying that. Sorry, folks, the spam problem is not going away any time soon.

SenderID and DomainKeys merely provide a way to validate that a sender is sending from the correct server for a particular domain. Spammers account for 95% of SenderID users worldwide — so it’s not possible to use SenderID to distinguish a spammer from a legitimate sender.

What these technologies do make possible is an end to false positives from bulk senders such as Microsoft, because they allow for messages from these important domains to be trusted.

Alas, even if everyone switched to a completely whitelist-based model, we would still get spam. We’d get it from our friends’ compromised PCs.

The real solution to spam is to kill all the spammers. But that requires a police state. So as long as we’re living in a free world, spam will continue to be a problem.

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