Mozilla Mail has made some excellent strides in the fight against unwanted mail (SPAM). Particularly with regards to the Bayesian junk mail controls. This technique is extremely effective when the user trains the junk algorithms with positive and negative data. We would like to push the SPAM work even further by adding support for real time black lists to Mozilla Thunderbird Mail. RBLs work a differently than the bayesian junk controls. An RBL is a list of 'known' SMTP servers notorious for sending SPAM. When the user receives a message, we can look at the IP address of the originating SMTP server, and look it up in a black list. One of the advantages of RBLs is that they don't require any work from the user. There is no training involved. In addition, the lists are 'live' and evolve over time as more sites are identified as senders of SPAM.
Source: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/specs/junkmail/rbls.html -- Omi Azad Contributor Bangla Computing and Localization Projects: Ankur: http://www.ankurbangla.org Ekushey: http://www.ekushey.org To unsubscribe send a blank mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bdlug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
