DON’T think about blocking spam – imagine instead that you are playing a game against the spammers, with cash at stake. That’s how businesses and internet service providers (ISPs) can improve their email filters, according to a new model of online confrontations.
Spam filters attempt to screen out unsolicited emails before they reach an inbox by studying each message’s characteristics, including where it was sent from and the type of words it contains. But no spam filter is perfect. If tuned to be more “aggressive” it will reject some legitimate mail as spam; if its aggression is toned down, it will…
