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 -- 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/>
