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Researchers have a prototype version of the system working and hope to release a more finished version soon.
Despite spammers' constant developments, some watchers believe the spam-fighting industry is holding its own.
"Most of the [spam] filter authors I know are getting filtering accuracy in the 99.9% or better range now . . . and most new
mail clients are getting good filters built right in," says Bill Yerazunis, senior research scientist with Mitsubishi Electric
Research Laboratories and chairman of the annual MIT Spam Conference. "For the short term we'll see more and more spam, but
we'll also see every mail client and service come with built-in spam filtering."
Additional reporting by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service.
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