Sunday, October 10, 2010

Spam Filter - Greg Egan

"The earliest reference that I can find in sf for the idea of a spam filter or other way to deal with the problem of spam is in The Moat, a 1991 short story by Greg Egan.

We used to get megabytes of automated invective via email, but that, at least, turned out to be easily fixed; we installed the latest screening software, and fed it a few samples of the kind of transmission we preferred not to receive."


3.5 out of 5

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=1933

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