Spam spotting: man v computer
D. d'Ambra · Engineering & Technology · 2008
Spam accounts for around 95 per cent of all business email sent by most estimations, so the occasional piece of junk mail is bound to slip by the filters. More often than not, the message seems to be so obviously spam that users can only conclude that they could do a better job than the technology; but, in truth, the human mind is too susceptible to outside influences to ever beat the machine. To demonstrate the issues involved security software firm SoftScan conducted an in-house experiment to see who was better at detecting spam.