FYI: Folsom - new spam filtering technology using P2P
- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:00:41 +0200
FYI:
Folsom - new spam filtering using P2P technologies
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992141
Folsom works on a peer-to-peer network and allows a user to flag junk
e-mail. It can share files with other members of a network.
Folsom will automatically transmit data identifying flagged spam,
preventing unsolicited e-mail from reaching mailboxes anywhere on its
network.
Folsom was created by the same people who developed Napster.
Creators of the software said testing Folsom in e-mail streams that
contained 40 and 60 per cent spam showed it could cut junk mail to
nearly zero.
If somebody will test, I would be interested to know results.
Yuri