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Project Aims to Clean Spam Data, Help Filters
A volunteer project is underway that has the potential to help spam filters avoid false positives, where anti-spam software mistakenly tags wanted e-mail as spam.
Dubbed “Spam or Ham,” the project asks volunteers to look at as many of a series of random e-mails as they want, and label each as either spam—unsolicited e-mail—or ham—wanted e-mail.
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You’re Not as Funny as You Think
A series of five studies by four business school professors from New York University, the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, asked a bunch of people to e-mail funny and sarcastic phrases to one another and predict whether the messages
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Marketers Turn to Trackable Media
Mass marketing may be growing in some quarters, but not among the business-to-business executives surveyed by Epsilon.
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Stupid Media Watch: Utah Paper Conveniently Overlooks the Obvious
In its ongoing one-sided coverage of Utah’s misnamed child-protection do-not-e-mail registry, the Deseret Morning News ran a blurb last week headlined “Anti-Porn Registry is Defended” that should have been headlined “Anti-Porn Registry is Demonstrable Failure.”
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Stupid Government Watch: FTC Loses Laptops, Data
The Federal Trade Commission last week reported that two of its laptops had been stolen containing the personal information of about 110 people.
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Email
Stupid Government Watch II: China Getting Tough on “Spam”
China is reportedly getting ready to take a hard-line approach to spammers, according to the Nanfang Daily.
Thing is, this is a country that has defined spam as:
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E-mail Response Management Firm Debuts
Response management is one of the most critical parts of any e-mail campaign
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Having His Say: The Case for Trusted-Class E-mail
Everyone understands the obvious economic advantages of e-mail over physical mail. But can we really rely on e-mail?
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