Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Web Mail Spam Filters Still Lacking
In terms of identifying spam using complicated methods, the three major providers do very well. But at a very simple level they are failing...
I've signed up with the Microsoft Partner program. It appears to be some behemoth covering all professionals who work with or sell Microsoft products. They send me an email, because I am a subscriber. It is sent from Microsoft@newsletters.microsoft.com. For some reason Hotmail doesn't display the content. Instead I get a message saying "This message may be dangerous." and I need to click on a link to see it. It's their own freaking message!
Meanwhile Gmail is sending virtually every piece of spam to the spam folder, with the exception of spam that pretends to be Google :(
I've signed up with the Microsoft Partner program. It appears to be some behemoth covering all professionals who work with or sell Microsoft products. They send me an email, because I am a subscriber. It is sent from Microsoft@newsletters.microsoft.com. For some reason Hotmail doesn't display the content. Instead I get a message saying "This message may be dangerous." and I need to click on a link to see it. It's their own freaking message!
Meanwhile Gmail is sending virtually every piece of spam to the spam folder, with the exception of spam that pretends to be Google :(
# posted by Rob @ 11:29 PM 
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