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Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd)
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 16:09:42 -0500
Petri Helenius wrote:
IsnĀ“t "highlight and hit delete" exactly what has been implemented since Mozilla 1.3 and works with almost perfect accuracy after you give it a few dozen messages to build up the "good and bad" database with?
Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have issues with determining spam. While fairly decent, one still has to go through looking for false positives. The other issue is that spammers have been doing a good job at designing emails to fool filters. I'm starting to see more and more spam designed to defeat Baynesian filters. By including "good" words in their emails, they either make good words spammy so that you get more FP's or they make their email clean enough that it's still in your inbox. The worst part of it is that spam is quickly becoming unreadable, so that legitimate emails that are readable are the emails more likely filtered.
-Jack
Current thread:
- OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Miles Fidelman (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Jack Bates (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Paul Vixie (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Petri Helenius (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Jack Bates (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Paul Timmins (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Petri Helenius (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) JC Dill (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Eric A. Hall (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) just me (Jun 18)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Curtis Maurand (Jun 19)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Andy Dills (Jun 19)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Jack Bates (Jun 19)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) Andy Dills (Jun 19)
- Re: OT: question re. the Volume of unwanted email (fwd) just me (Jun 19)