The Rules of Spam: An Introduction

By Michael Dinowitz

Many of you know of CF-Talk. Many of you know of the various other lists that are also run out of House of Fusion. One thing that never gets to these lists is spam. Why is that? For many reasons, the first of which is that I write and update my own spam filters.

In the next dozen issues or so of Fusion Authority, I will be going over the rules that I use to filter out spam. Some of these rules are very simple, while others are esoteric in the extreme. Each of these articles will examine one rule, the logic behind it and how much spam has been filtered by it (in relative terms).

The goal of these articles is to provide an education in blocking spam, while also making people aware of some of the tactics taken by spammers.

Michael Dinowitz
Master of the House
House of Fusion

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