How to spot and stop spam
March 8, 2008 – 2:15 PMUnsolicited e-mails now infuriatingly clutter many inboxes, just as paper junk mail buried many a front door map. But is smart technology set to save us from spam? To us humans, spam is very easy to spot.
Unfortunately to your computer one e-mail message looks very like another.
Without help it will see nothing special about the formatting in junk mail to distinguish it from the stuff you want to read.
Many anti-spam programs work by scanning e-mail messages for the keywords that spammers use, but your genuine friends tend to avoid.
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