Bumpkin Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 Borrowed from a NANAE post... wanted to bring it over to share :-) http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7718 A quote: "A team from IBM and Cornell University in New York state, US, developed the anti-spam technique, which they call "SMTP Path Analysis". It involves examining information embedded in email messages about the route it has taken across the internet. This allows it to make a good guess as to whether or not a new message is electronic junk mail." Er....
StevenUnderwood Posted July 22, 2005 Posted July 22, 2005 "A team from IBM and Cornell University in New York state, US, developed the anti-spam technique, which they call "SMTP Path Analysis". It involves examining information embedded in email messages about the route it has taken across the internet. This allows it to make a good guess as to whether or not a new message is electronic junk mail." 30541[/snapback] It seems spamcop email service has been using a similiar technique for quite a while since they check every IP in the received headers for inclusion on the selected bl's. BTW, I just send a short comment on the depth of their investigation.
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