Paul Stanway Jr
07-20-2005, 07:39 PM
Hotmail throws boomerangs against spam
This blog has been corrected. It originally gave an outdated job title for Shahine. He currently is a lead program manager for Hotmail.
Microsoft's antispam boffins think they're onto something fairly intuitive and yet unique enough to be patentable, and they're using the term "boomerang" to describe it.
According to the blog of Omar Shahine, a lead program manager for Hotmail, the service now examines whether e-mail messages are replies in determining whether or not they're spam.
Read more at http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5785614.html?part=rss&tag=5785614&subj=news
This blog has been corrected. It originally gave an outdated job title for Shahine. He currently is a lead program manager for Hotmail.
Microsoft's antispam boffins think they're onto something fairly intuitive and yet unique enough to be patentable, and they're using the term "boomerang" to describe it.
According to the blog of Omar Shahine, a lead program manager for Hotmail, the service now examines whether e-mail messages are replies in determining whether or not they're spam.
Read more at http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5785614.html?part=rss&tag=5785614&subj=news