Ask HN: Is there a spam filtering web service?
After reading Resig's post about Google Groups, I was wondering if there exists a web service that specializes in filtering out spam.
I would imagine I could create a new filter, send training data to a filter, and send data to a filter and have it return the likelihood of it being spam.
Anybody have first hand experience using a web service like this? If so, has it met your expectations?
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 32.0 ms ] threadI've done the integration work, but haven't put it into production, so I can't speak to how well the actual service works.
I could imagine a setup where you have people send mail to an alias on your domain, route it into Postini, and then into Google Groups. The big problem would be getting users _not_ to send directly to Google Groups. And I'm not sure you'd even be able to tell them (direct vs. filtered) apart in Google Groups...
Except for the registering-over-and-over-again issue, it seems like forums would be preferable generally... (Especially given that most will send you emails with new posts if you ask it to.)