FYI: Folsom - new spam filtering technology using P2P

• To: "anti-spam-wg@localhost" < >
• From: Yuri Demchenko < >
• 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

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