Friday, October 14, 2011

Postmark spam filter has an API - Despammed should, too

Darn it, why don't I think of these things? (Their API.)

So I'm moving towards a plan to revitalize Despammed.com. Maybe the time has come? I'm not sure yet, but I want to do it.

Imagine, if you will, a spam filtration service that offers:
  • SpamAssassin
  • Procmail
  • Green and redlighting of known-good, known-bad actors on a per-account basis
  • CRM114
  • Bayesian training
  • Tracking of spamvertised URLs
as well as
  • Both forwarding and Webmail access
  • Arbitrary forwarding (including taking Web API action or Twilio phone action) based on rules, including rules that can be expressed in arbitrary JavaScript
  • Spam discussion with specific examples and other community action
  • Blogging about spam topics, including botnet identification and such
as well as
  • Uniform treatment of both email and Web spam
  • and yeah, an API...
Wouldn't that be cool? Maybe cool enough to pay for, even? Maybe, at this point, a manageable thing to put together because it needn't all be from scratch?

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