> I do get false positives almost daily though, but I don't see how Entourage > can be blamed: They come from people who are not in my Address Book, most > frequently from newsgroup posters who respond to me directly instead of to > the appropriate newsgroup. How could Spam Sieve, any more than Entourage, > possibly know that a message is legitimate if it comes from someone you > don't know and whose name or address is not in your Address Book?
By looking for patterns in the content of the message. That's how SpamSieve and other modern spam filters work. You train the filter against a set of known junk and known good mail and the filter finds patterns from the training that differentiate junk from good mail. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
