Published By: ZDNet Posted By: Eric Lubow 11/22/2002
E-mail security company CipherTrust wants your spam. The company is calling on surfers of all stripes to help it wage a fight against spam by sending their unsolicited mass e-mail to its new Web site, Spamarchive.org. The idea is to create a vast public repository of spam, so makers of antispam tools can test their algorithms on the latest mass-messaging trends.
"It's kind of like donating your spam to science," Paul Judge, director of research and development at CipherTrust, said.
CipherTrust is soliciting volunteers to help it determine which messages constitute spam. It plans to put the database online in a few days and will collect spam messages on an ongoing basis.
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