Scientists devise new technique to get rid of spam mail
Agencies: Toronto, Nov 21 2012, 14:38 IST
methods that were general and limited to patterns found in texts or images, the new method is much stronger, based on techniques used in pattern recognition and data mining, to filter out unwanted emails.
Although the new method has been tested on English spam emails, Amayri said it can be easily extended to other languages.
"Spammers keep adapting their methods so that they can trick the spam filters. Researchers in this field need to work together to keep adapting our methods too, so that we can keep spam out and focus on those messages that are really important," Amayri added.
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