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Mollom eliminates unwanted postings from websites worldwide.

Got spam? Who doesn't! But if you think finding and deleting a few hundred spam messages from your inbox or Website is a challenge, try deleting a few hundred million. That's the volume that leading spam-fighters such as Dries Buytaert battle each day. As co-creator of Mollom, a Java-based technology that processes hundreds of requests per second to keep the invading horde at bay, Buytaert is continually confronted with the "dark side" of the internet: it has become a petri dish of sorts, breeding countless unsolicited automated messages and comments like invasive bacteria.

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