Monday, April 16, 2007

 

Reducing Image Spam

We are pleased to announce that our spam scanning service has been upgraded to include intelligent scanning of images within emails using a number of techniques including OCR (Optical Character Recognition). The system has been developed entirely in house using a third party OCR package.

A recent snapshot of statistics show.

Messages blocked by :

49,458 DNS blacklists
835 SpamAssasin
792 NEW Image scanning

4,661 Messages accepted as clean

The new scanner represents a 15% fall in the number of messages accepted for delivery.

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