[Fwd: Re: [Asrg] 1c. Analysis of Spam - biological approach]

Yakov Shafranovich <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:27:23 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.asrg.filtering
Organization SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc.
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These two papers go hand in hand with some of the discussions about 
inoculation format.

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Subject: Re: [Asrg] 1c. Analysis of Spam - biological approach
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 13:15:55 -0800
From: Greg Wittel
To: [email protected]

>> Anyone with a degree in bioscience here?  Or willing to bring in
>> someone knowledgeble?  Any previous works in this area?
> 
> 
> I do not think this view has been taken before with spam (in terms of
> a research paper at least).  Though it's a very interesting idea.

As a small update, I stumbled across two papers (written in 2003) that
attempt to take a biological approach:
    http://terri.zone12.com/me/publications/
Papers titled:
    Developing an Immunity to Spam
    Increasing the Accuracy of a Spam-Detecting Artificial Immune System

-Greg