I agree to what's below. I would say, though, that the situation Michael describes will *probably* become more prominent. I have actually seen a small degree of this in my own network that has ~1,000 mailboxes behind it. Add to this the fact that spammers are becoming smarter in what they do, and that means the spam of the future will *look* more and more like legitimate mail...similar words, similar phrases...the kind of thing any Bayesian filter checks for.
While this is a small problem now, I can see where this could easily grow and become a large problem for a Bayesian filter. I'm glad ASSP has way more than just Bayesian analysis (delaying was simply the most brilliant move of the century), but Bayesian is still the "last ditch" effort to figure out if a message is good or bad. If the effectiveness of that feature is diminished due to the type of mail flowing through it or the kind of user using the filter...perhaps it should be re-evaluated from a fresh perspective? We can't turn a blind eye to this sort of thing. That's all I'm trying to say. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Marcus Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 2:26 PM To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Subject: Re: [Assp-user] PHP tool to view and Sort your Spam/Notspam Micheal Espinola Jr wrote: > Paul, > > I'm curious to know if I have explained myself well enough for you to > understand my reasoning. I value your (as well as Fritz's, and anyone > else's) opinion about this. Hi Michael, I, for one, believe I understand your situation, and think your solutions was both creative and appropriate to the circumstances. I also understand Fritz's blanket response that this is the 'wrong thing' to do. I think the problem is, you have encountered a very unusual situation that Fritz hasn't, and took it upon yourself to find a way to solve it, and did so. That said, I think that Fritz's response applies to probably 99% of the implementations out there. So, you are *both* right. At least, thats mho... -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE V _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
