A meeting reminder from the boss, a lascivious letter from a lover, or the daily tally from a fantasy football league: Which e-mail would you read first? Programmers at a small software company say ...

Mailshell, a San Francisco software company, is working with the nonprofit site TechSoup.org on a campaign to help charities fight unwanted e-mail messages. The effort will culminate in Mailshell’s ...

Founded in 1994, Nemx Software provides content security solutions for Microsoft Exchange servers. The small firm, consisting of only seven full-time staff members, provides anti-spam, anti-virus and ...

Turning the number of false positives and false negatives into easy-to-digest statistics is different, because the anti-spam community has not come to any agreement on which numbers to use across ...

Gmail users faced widespread chaos Saturday as promotional emails flooded inboxes, legitimate messages triggered spam warnings, and filters failed. The outage, starting early morning, forced millions ...

We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

I don't mean to pry, but how much e-mail do you receive per day? Of that, what percentage is specifically intended for you, say from friends, contacts and business acquaintances? Now, give me a second ...

Spam sucks. We all know that. There is no better way of putting it -- especially if your company has ever been hit with 10,000 pieces of spam in a single day. It's not too far-fetched a scenario: ...