On 1/27/04 11:54 AM, "David Cortright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>> 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.

Okay.  That makes sense.

Beth

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