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Students tired of Viagra ads, get rich quick schemes and provocative offers from “the girl you met last night,” have a new weapon in the war against spam...
...screens incoming e-mails for specific terms—such as “click here” and “pennies a day”—identified as common in unsolicited commercial messages. If the message has enough flagged terms, it is labeled as spam and can be redirected into a separate folder for users to weed through at their pleasure...
This form of filtering is one of the less-obtrusive methods of preventing spam because it avoids misidentifying legitimate e-mail more so than many other programs, according to Coordinator of Residential Computing Kevin S. Davis...
...There’s always a trade-off between having a lot of spam and having a lot of false positives,” Davis said. “In our environment where people need to get messages quickly, it’s better to err on the side of picking up less spam, and getting legitimate mail...
...this story were an E-mail message, chances are you would have trashed it by now. That's because the subject is Viagra, the little blue pill that allows many otherwise impotent men to achieve erection and, not coincidentally, continues to generate a torrent of Internet spam. Hard to believe it has been almost five years since Viagra was approved by the Food and Drug Administration. In that time early fears that the drug might cause nerve damage to the eye or directly trigger cardiac deaths have been laid to rest, while its status as a cultural phenomenon has grown...