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Fighting Spam for a New Startup
2 points by palish on Aug 15, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments
Heya! For my site launch I'm pretty sure I need to be ready to fight spam, but I'm not sure how ready. At the very least I'll set up a basic spam filter, but I'm unsure if I should train it myself beforehand (by copy and pasting the 1000 Gmail spam emails I have in my inbox) or wait until site launch.

People will write text that other people see, so it's probable that some of it will be spam.

What do you all do? Is there a big database of spam to preconfigure spam filters?




For email spam - http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/treccorpus/

For web spam - http://www-static.cc.gatech.edu/projects/doi/WebbSpamCorpus....


I figure old spam should work.

On a side note, how many people are making spam-filtering startups?


There can't be that many (edit - that many Email spam startups at least. Web spam, blog spam etc are another issue). It's a crowded and relatively mature market that just went through a round of acquisitions of mature private anti-spam companies (CipherTrust, IronPort and Postini)




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