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October 21, 2005

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Robert Stockton

I believe that in evaluating the spam filters you have made a very common mistake. Everyone seems to assume that blog spam targets the same products as e-mail spam, and this does not match my experience. For example, "mesothelioma" is probably more common in blog spam than "viagra", even though it never seems to appear in e-mail spam at all. In any case, both of those are incredibly trivial to filter, and thus don't make good test cases. If you really want to check the effectiveness of spam filtering, do a search for "hotels".

Matthew Hurst

Robert - it turns out that there is plenty of pharma spam in blogs as well, so a search for this term is as valid as any other annecdotal test for spam. See here for the first page on Technorati: http://www.livejournal.com/users/medinfo/12555.html, here for the first page on Sphere: http://www.bestpharma.net/pharmacy-online/440/online-pharmacy-online-7, here for Google: http://texas-holdem-players.blogspot.com/2005/10/viagra.html (actually a poker spam site which contains the word 'viagra' - go figure), ...

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