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For years people have been fighting spam the wrong way. Most spam filters try to specify what kind of messages to reject. It???s like defining a wheel by specifying what it is not. - Define rule: Don???t allow square shapes. - Somebody will send you a ???wheel??? with a triangle shape. - Define rule: Don???t allow triangle shapes. - Somebody will send you a ???wheel??? with an oval shape. - Define rule:.. As you can see, it???s an endless job. Every time you define a rule, somebody finds a way to avoid it. With spam it???s the same: whatever type of rule you define, the spam generators will find a way to generate spam on which al those rules don???t apply. ? But specifying a wheel is pretty easy: A solid disk or a rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the center. Specifying Email is just as easy: Private messages from real people I want to receive. This is where SpamBright steps in. It???s not a spam-filter that tries to identify spam (which doesn???t seem possible), but a program that identifies email (which isn???t that hard). SpamBright will keep your mailbox clean.
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