[anti-abuse-wg] how to detect spambots - SPAMTrusted

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 04:46:37PM +0100, Jan Pieter Cornet wrote:
> Definition, yes. UBE is usually easier to define and is practically
> equivalent to spam. But pretty much everyone recognizes a spam if they
> see one. It is therefore easy for a human to detect spam and take
> corrective action against a spammer or spamming host.

This is actually *way* oversimplifying things.  

Some SPAMs are obvious, of course, but there is a wide area of "grey" in 
between - some people send advertising e-mails that part of their 
receipients find quite interesting (because the mails meet their interests), 
while others consider them SPAM.

OTOH, we get SPAM complaints for info mails that people actually and
provably subscribed to(!) [commercial service, people subscribe, forget
about it, and later just report to spamcop instead of unsubscribing].

Gert Doering
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