Live spam-catching contest at CEAS

noodleburglar writes "The 2007 Conference on Email and Anti-Spam (CEAS) will feature a live spam-catching contest. Entrants will be treated to a torrent of spam and must use their spam filtering technique to filter out as much as possible, while also letting legitimate messages. My money's on Spam Assassin." This ought to be a sweeps week television spectacular.

Sweeps

[cyphercell]

This ought to be a sweeps week television spectacular.

It think I've seen people catching spam on tv, just not the kind you're talkin' 'bout. http://www.spam.com/ [spam.com]

Re:My money

[rodney dill]

Well let's just find out, just what is your gmail address, hmmmm?

;)

The prize list :)

[davidwr]

1st prize: Job offer from a security-software vendor
2nd prize: Lifetime supply of Hormel meat products
3rd prize: Commemorative tin of SPAM meat product
Last place: Inheritance from Nigerian Prince

that's easy. Yahoo mail!

[number6x]

Just open a yahoo mail account, and start posting with the e-mail address all over th internet.

You'll catch more spam than anyone else!

Oh, you want me to filter out spam, not just get spam, nevermind.

Still, it might be the fastest way to build a database of spam.

New packaging?

[davmoo]

A torrent of spam? It doesn't come in cans anymore?!

The cans were so much easier to catch, too.

Re:West Virginia

[UnknowingFool]

Back in West Virginia we'all used to go spam catchin' every weekend while they was in season! Them spam made good eatin'.

Don't lie. You and your buddies got drunk and would go spam tipping. There was no hunting involved.

The First Annual Greased Spammer Contest!

[Penguinisto]

(cue Monster Truck Rally announcer guy voice...) THIS SATURDAY AT THE EXPO CENTER! The Best admins and the worst spammers come together in a throwdown-showdown-lowdown Greased Spammer Contest! We kidnap, strip, and grease down every known spammer we can find on Planet Earth! We bring 'em here, then we give our lucky mail server admins (as determined by lottery) a chance to catch 'em! The spammers will be released into a large pit, where the admins may use any method to catch and immobilize spammers (firearms and other projectile weapons are excluded). Points will be given for the number of spammers caught, the methods of capture, and the level of eye-rattling violence applied to each spammer after their capture! Watch as the winning admin gets to publicly execute the dreaded Sanford Wallace by any method that he or she can dream up! Any method at all! You'll buy a ticket for the whole seat, but you will only need the edge! Get your tickets at the Mondotix - DON'T MISS IT!(/voice)

/P

Re:CRM114

[Anonymous Coward]

Unlike many other "filters", CRM114's default action is to read all of input, and put NOTHING onto output.

This is either:

1) "automatic" white-listing?
2) Not healthy and you should eat more fibre.

Re:Mateo_LeFou, prepare yourself...

[Zephyros]

Translation: "You have no chance to survive. Make your time."

Boring.

[bmo]

Couldn't we just have a contest where actual live spammers are fed to lions?

To quote Bill Mattocks...

"My sense of personal integrity is none of your concern."
                                                -thus spake Walt "Pickle Jar" Rines
"I'm going to pound your balls flat with a wooden mallet."
                                                -thus respondeth Bill Mattocks

Kobayashi Maru

[Kozar_The_Malignant]

Find a creative and unique solution (cheat):

• Hunt through CEAS conference hall
• Find contest spammers
• Drag spammers back to contest area
• Spammers are beaten to death by audience
• Win!!!
• ...Oh, wait, they weren't realspammers?
• Sorry

Isn't this already on TV?

[Minwee]

"This ought to be a sweeps week television spectacular."

I think that it already is, but it's only on in Japan and uses real SPAM.