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This article describesThe following articles written by Marc Perkel describe experimental technologies used at \[http://www.junkemailfilter.com Junk Email Filter\]. I (Marc Perkel) am writing this in the hopes that other people will pick up on these ideas and improve them. Although it is working very well for us so far, it can be improved and expanded. It is my hope that this will inspire others to work on this and make it far better than what we have developed. Information about our Host Karma lists can be found \[http://wiki.junkemailfilter.com/index.php/Spam_DNS_Lists here\]

Spam is about money. It is driven by people taking advantage of people who for some reason are fooled by spam. People who understand that all spam is fraud never fall for it. What I worked for the \[http://www.eff.org Electronic Frontier Foundation\] I remember one staff meeting we talked about a spammer who went to jail for fraud relating to selling penis enlargement products through spam. This guy had made millions by the time he went to jail. I joked that maybe I was on the wrong side of the spam wars. I also sometimes watch the TV show Judge Judy where someone gets a spam and gets a check in the mail and sends back the money before the check bounces.

End of Marc Perkel section. I'm putting my name in this because I tend to write in the first person and wanted to clarify it. Also if someone wants to work with me to develop these ideas feel free to \[mailto:support@junkemailfilter.com contact me\]. Some people might not agree with everything I posted here and I may be wrong and there may be better ideas out there. But this was meant to stimulate thought in the hopes that some part of this rant will lead to the future development of Spam Assassin and related spam fighting poolstools.