On 16/6/04 4:06 pm, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus spake Barry Wainwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 6/16/2004 1:28 AM: >> Individually, [Bayesian poisoning] 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. > > I'm not qualified to comment on this except to say that better programmers > than I find this controversial. > > Some of you may find this page interesting: > > Sophos white papers about spam <http://www.sophos.com/spaminfo/whitepapers/> > > peter Interesting, but read it while being aware that Sophos do make their living by selling anti-spam software... -- 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/>
