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Spam-Fighting Methods That Don't Exist Yet |
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
I'm tired of all the computer spam we're receiving nowadays. It's really pathetic that nobody has been able to write some good spam-detection software. It's amazing that we have all this great software but somehow no method of truly filtering out spam emails! I still get tons of crap everyday about viagra, enlargement, weird stock names, unknown weight loss pills, and no-name mortgage companies!
Included is a just-for-fun list of filters someone should invent to prevent all spam emails - for now...
Emails from the future - I'm tired of receiving emails from the year 2038 in my Yahoo email account. C'MON!!! Seriously, I can't believe this is somehow getting through Yahoo's filters! From now on, all emails sent even 48 hours ahead of the server's timezone should automatically deleted and replied with a 1mb attachment back to the sender!
More filters - Services like Yahoo should allow us to have a box where we can enter in as many keywords as we like to reject email. I hate that you can only have a limited number of filters with their free email service. Yahoo obviously doesn't understand that by not providing me with good email-filtering service, I will simply move to a free pop3 account like Gmail and just download to my Outlook and use my own built-in spam-filter.
Reject Weird Top-level domains - Again, I'm tired of receiving tons of junk from .info or .co.uk or any of those other international top-level domain names. If anything...I'd like all the international emails to be sent to a spam folder dedicated for international emails for me to sort through later.
Bulk Photo-Attachment Scanning - I'm tired of those annoying emails that attach images with text promoting their silly pills or unknown stock tickers. I'd like for there to be some sort of thumbnail view where you can view all the photo attachments in your inbox and just check all the ones you want to delete along with the corresponding email.
Auto-Unsubscribe Spiders - If spammers have the technology to spider out emails from websites and automatically email them and post annoying links on pages than we should have the service that can scan our emails and automatically click the unsubscribe link and fill it out with our email addresses! It shouldn't be too hard considering that spambots even have technology where they can read that anti-spam graphical text!
Domain Age Check - All links in the body of the emails should be checked by some kind of list or even Google's cache. If the link leads to a domain that hasn't existed for more than a month, the email should be immediately rejected. Emails should also be rejected if links don't even lead to a working website.
I'm sure there's others I haven't thought of. Feel free to comment and I'll add it to the list if it's good.
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