Spam is the curse of every e-mail service, not to mention anyone who’s ever opened up an inbox. But Yahoo is determined to try an eliminate as much spam as possible for its webmail service, and it’s bringing in some new tools to try and make that possible.
In a blog posting, the company anti-spam czar, Mark Risher, explained:
“Yahoo!’s anti-spam team has been using a “supercomputer” consisting of thousands of individual PCs — part of our open source Hadoop project — to help detect spammers. We’re teamed up with several top universities on this research, looking for more ways to find and block the bad guys even faster, before they can do their damage.”
