[ale] Porn filters

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Mon Oct 7 11:27:55 EDT 2002


On Monday 07 October 2002 10:45 am, Matthew Brown wrote:
> Here's a hot one for ya...
>
> I have a client asking for some way to stop receiving all the porn
> they are barraged with.  They want to filter stuff not so much on the
> web side, but also on the email side.  For some reason they get a ton
> of porn mail.
>
> Beyond simply setting up email client rules and education, does
> anyone have a silver bullet?

I think the two best filters are spamassassin and bogofilter.  Both are 
general spam filters.

Bogofilter is interesting in that it is a learning algorithm.  So if you 
just teach it on the porn emila it will proobably only block the porn.  
Teach it on general spam and it will block spam.

--Michael

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