On 15/6/04 5:29 pm, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spake Remo Del Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 6/15/2004 11:59 AM: >> Spammers are now employing techniques dubbed "Bayesian poisoning" [...] >> It's debatable whether this would actually decrease the effect of a personal >> Bayes database. > > OK, thanks. I had heard this before, and have received some of these. But > they seem to have no effect on SpamSieve. > Individually, they won't have any apparent effect, but because of the way a bayesian filter works, if it is trained on messages like this there will be a slow accumulated detrimental effect which will lessen the effectiveness of the filter. -- Barry Wainwright Microsoft MVP (see http://mvp.support.microsoft.com for details) Seen the All-New Entourage Help Pages? - Check them out: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/> -- 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/>
