Re: ASCII Captcha

On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 10:58 +0100, Diogo Neves wrote: > Well, I don't know how, but google folks @ gmail are doing a great job > with anti-spam tecnology... i believe that is has something to do with > the massive user base that can more accuratly say what is spam and > blacklist it plus mispelling 'spam' words and the original ones, plus > that '1000's from the same guy with same content' wow. > > I really get so less spam comparing with all other webmail clients... > I love gmail :) I think you hit the nail on the head thought when you mention massive user base. Probably at the outset of a spam campaign a bunch of users get the spam, flag it as spam and then google just marks the rest as spam for the several other million users :) That said, gmail isn't perfect either which indicates a measure of the difficulty of this problem. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP