Live spam challenge at CEAS

Filed in archive Spam News on April 10, 2007

Will from New Scientist is all worked up because of the Live spam challenge that will be going on at this year's Conference on Email and Anti-Spam.

"What's more, at this year's conference in August, they'll be running a Live Spam Challenge, to find the best spam filtering technique out there. Over 24 hours, they'll provide a torrent of spam, along with a few real messages, for entrants to try and filter appropriately. You don't even have to be an attendee to get involved, as they're requesting both on-site and remote participants."

I am excited too, can't wait to sign my name up for participation.

For all of you interested out there, know that "all types of anti-spam technology are welcome including servers, appliances, proxies and personal filters. Participants will be allowed to use any network resource including real-time blacklists, real-time white-lists, reverse-DNS queries, and privately owned and updated databases."

If you're eager to show off your anti-spam fighting skills, check out the Live spam challenge official site and count the days until May 1, when toolkits will be available.