TechnoMagicians Weblog :: Mail Cruncher is a bit crunchy

Anyway, it seems Mail Cruncher's internation team has taken 3 years to come up with what looks very similar to techniques already in use for some time to fight spam. To base their whole offering on this seems dangerous to me.

I'm getting tired of saying it but SimpleFilter has been using something very similar for a very long time. And of course it is only a very small piece of everything we use in the fight against spam.

The press release is here along with a quote:

Spammers tend to hide and move; legitimate business senders tend to be stable and clearly identifiable. This common-sense observation was the basis for work done by an international team over the past three years. Led by Ms. Lorenzen, the team's work culminated in the creation of a business trust rating database for email called the Outbound Index.

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Re: Mail Cruncher is a bit crunchy

by Anonymous on Tue 12 Oct 2004 09:28 PM EDT | Permanent Link

Hi Tim,

I like the simple focus of the SimpleFilter you and Brent created. I am glad to read of your success. I recently visited Toronto for a conference at the Intercontinental hotel for the non-profit I'm on the board of, ImagoRelationships.org. Beautiful city and my son and I really enjoyed our stay.

Thanks,

- April Lorenzen
Mail Cruncher

Re: Re: Mail Cruncher is a bit crunchy

by Tim A on Wed 13 Oct 2004 02:33 PM EDT | Profile | Permanent Link

April,

Thanks. The idea with SimpleFilter is to keep it as simple as possible for the end users. To the end user it is pretty similar to Mail Cruncher in the way that one just scans their mail and very quickly can determine what is NOT and what is likely spam.

I'm glad you enjoyed your stay in Toronto.

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