> The "untrainable" nature of the filter may seem restrictive or
> short-sighted, but actually it makes sense. If I as an individual
> train my filter, I will always be getting newly spawned spam that
> sneaks past the filter. Microsoft's crew, on the other hand, is
> sieving the Internet deliberately looking for spam and updating the
> filter to prevent it from ever reaching me. I might sift through
> hundreds of spams, but they will process and prohibit thousands. The
> only drawback I can see is that my filter gets updated every few
> months instead of every day.
That's a pretty serious drawback, in my book.
Granted, I don't know how once could merge a user's own training with an
update from Microsoft, but it doesn't seem to me that the filter is updated
all that often.
It does work extremely well for me, though. Very few mistakes in either
direction.
--Mike
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