I was actually watching the last episode of TAKEN when I switched to TLC, and "There I was".. It kinda blew me away... I never get advanced notice of this, but n01100110 alerted me about this forum.

It's been a long time since I got on here, but I suppose I should let you all know about my NEXT act. If you hate spammers and spam mail, you'll love my NEXT program. It's a kind of "spam management" system. I'm prolly going to put it on SourceForge through the SpamBayes project, in that is uses a lot of the work being done there.

I'm getting better then expected results in the Identification of spam, like it takes about 2 weeks to train it, and it gets it right about 95% of the time. As spammers adapt, so does the program. And here's the real sweet part... Once spam is "filtered out", there is a lot of things you can do with it. Like report to spamcop, FTC, track the spammer, using a really cool tracking system like whats in the Crunchbox. It follows up the path the mail takes, keeps records of all the ISP's they use, builds up the "goods" on them (spammers), and files reports on them. What you do with that information is up to you, but because it follows the "money trail", it's pretty precise in locating them.

I'll be in Cambridge, Ma in Jan to give talk on it. If anyone is in the area, I wouldn't miss it if I were you. And Oh yea, it can really be a great tool to nail PORN *******s also.

I'm thinking of setting up a really secure Email system and make it available. It's a pay service, but priced reasonably. Web based or POP based. Use it with your existing POP server through Proxy system, or WEB based access. SSL connection to the server for security and privacy, as well as virus filtering. I would like to get some feedback on whether or not this might be something soneone might want to have, and what I should charge with it. Payment would be by check or PayPal. Like "Webcrunchers" web hosting, it's going to be limited to a certain number of users so performance will not be degraded.

Crunchman