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Subject filters | Subject filters are popular, since large amounts of spam still is about things that rarely appears in legitimate mail, such as certain drugs, body parts, and implausible third-world military and financial stories. | ||
They are easily subverted by euphemism or deliberate misspellings, e.g. v1@gra. | They are easily subverted by euphemism or deliberate misspellings, e.g. v1@gra. | ||
Naive filters tend to get unexpected false positives. For example a filter for the drug name 'cialis' would match the common word 'specialist'. While it's easy to fix this specific case by checking for word boundaries, there are many words such as 'breast' that occur in multiple contexts, some wanted, some not. | |||
Latest revision as of 10:11, 14 March 2008
| Anti-spam technique: Static subject keyword | |
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| Date of first use: | early 1990s |
| Effectiveness: | Low |
| Popularity: | High, built into many MUAs |
| Difficulty of implementation: | Easy |
| Where implemented: | MUA or MTA |
| Harm: | Variable |
Subject filters are popular, since large amounts of spam still is about things that rarely appears in legitimate mail, such as certain drugs, body parts, and implausible third-world military and financial stories.
They are easily subverted by euphemism or deliberate misspellings, e.g. v1@gra.
Naive filters tend to get unexpected false positives. For example a filter for the drug name 'cialis' would match the common word 'specialist'. While it's easy to fix this specific case by checking for word boundaries, there are many words such as 'breast' that occur in multiple contexts, some wanted, some not.
