Damien Morton wrote:
I have a basic problem with any approaches that mandate being able to
read the contents of an email in order to classify it as spam or not.
Whilst the current mail infrastructure makes it easy for servers to read
the contents of mail, this neednt necessarily always be so. These
systems can also be avoided by various transformations, such as
slice-and-dice tables, misspellings, etc etc. Further, any content
oriented detection systems could easily be repurposed for privacy
invasion purposes.
A mail server can be easily repurposed for privacy invasion ... just a
few source code hacks and voila, all of everyone's email. It's not a
very good argument. That's for privacy legislation to deal with, and
not a reason why content filters (or filters that work with other
criteria than "content") cannot be used when appropriate consent is
obtained.
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