Re: Summary of interests ..

Hi Everyone,

I am one of the IBM people Yakov was referring to who presented at the 
NIST antispam conference.   I am part of a new antispam effort at IBM. Our 
initial focus was the development of antispam filtering technologies, but 
we are now broadening our efforts to take a global view of the spam issue 
with research into many areas including SMTP security, authentication, 
bonded senders, and tools for senders of legitimate bulk mail to stay 
within the law and to respect individual privacy.

My primary interest in joining the group is to help stop spam.   I am 
coming at the problem from the perspective of both an email client vendor 
and an antispam solution vendor.   As an email client vendor, we would 
like the interfaces we develop for Lotus Notes and Lotus Workplace 
Messaging for reducing spam to be able to interact with a variety of 
third-party antispam solutions, many of which are provided by our business 
partners.   While we could make a proprietary interface available to our 
customers, IBM has long favored open standards as a way to promote 
interoperability.   As an antispam solution developer, open standards for 
communicating with e-mail clients gets us out of the business of providing 
plugins to a variety of third-party email clients.  While I described the 
above from IBM's perspective, I think it is easy to see that many email 
vendors and antispam solutuion providers are in the same boat.  But more 
importantly, the cheaper and easier it is to deploy antispam filtering 
technology, the better it will be for the internet community as a whole.

I am relatively new to the standards front.  My background is in machine 
learning and text analysis, but I see standards as key to increasing both 
adoption rate and the effectiveness of antispam filters.  That is plenty 
for an introduction.  Now on to the real stuff :-)

- Rich

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Richard Segal
Agents & Emergent Phenomena
IBM Research

Email: [email protected]
WWW: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/r/rsegal
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[email protected] wrote on 02/19/2004 10:41:00 PM:

> Jesse Dougherty wrote:
> > Also, It looks like people are interested in the following
> > communications:
> > 
> > 1) communicating filtering decisions made at the MTA to the MUA
> > 2) providing feedback on errors/preference from the MUA to the MTA
> 
> The people from IBM Research that gave presentations on this subject at 
> the NIST conference are considering joining this list. If they do, it 
> would be a very good addition.
> 
> Yakov
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> Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
> SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
> "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" (Lord 
> Acton)
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