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Abaca's Radical Anti-Spam Tech Wins at Yahoo
At the RSA Conference, we were almost blinded by the huge grins
on the faces of the Abaca reps.
As you may
recall, Abaca has a really interesting spin on the spam filtering
problem. Finely tuned mathematics and a big database of receiver
statistics give back up some truly impressive claims. We
said last year that we like Abaca's approach; it's very promising.
For over a
year, Abaca has been working on a deal with Yahoo to add the technology
-- which it now calls CLX -- to the spam filtering mix. A few months
ago, we heard unofficially that Yahoo agreed to roll it out.
Now, Abaca
is announcing that the rollout has been hugely successful, and that
Yahoo is extremely satisfied with the result.
As an update,
here's the (claimed) highlights of the Abaca technology:
- Guaranteed
accuracy of at least 99% catch rate (with money-back contract
terms).
- Claimed
false positive rate is infinitesimal (we calculate their claims
equate to one in a million messages).
- After bootstrapping
with recipient email statistics, no user training is required,
but can be individualized by users clicking the Spam/Not-spam
buttons.
- By its nature,
it's extremely scalable -- a single small server can handle 90
million messages per hour.
Of course,
we can't verify these claims, but it would appear that Yahoo effectively
has.
Equally, we
don't know how close to reality the false positive figures are --
at best they're based on user reports alone, which usually tend
to significantly understate the reality. But, again, if the Yahoo
user reports are anything close to 1:1,000,000, then Abaca has something
really worth shouting about. ... Richi
Jennings
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