I see where the idea is coming from, and it might well be useful in some circumstances: however, relating only to my own case, my ISP must use a pretty good anti-virus and anti-malware filter, as I almost never see obvious spam or attempted fraud emails. The most common is the email composed in HTML with a deceptive link, but since I read my emails in plain text these are immediately obvious even if they do get through. For emails coming from an unrecognised sender, these are often routed automatically to my Junk folder by the email client - I guess using Windows Defender or Trend Micro's email monitor. I still feel that I have better control over, particularly, my business emails, as I might well receive emails from clients which heuristic textual analysis would treat as to be similarly categorised, but which I definitely need to deal with separately, and which are rule-routed to separate folders.
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Saturday, 7 September 2013 10:29 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: the end of email as we know it John, he's not referring to simple static text pattern or regex based rules. He's referring to heuristic textual analysis that ranks and routes email by content. It can deal with mail from senders you've never heard from before. It's based on the same technology that they use to detect spam but repurposed to categorize it (where one of the sub-categories is "spam"). Back when I was building mail routers for a firewall company we were working on such a system based on Bayesian statistics. It could reliably detect spam but it could also broadly categorize email, though much less reliably than spotting spam. Google has the design chops to get that right and they are rolling that tech out now. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 7:13 PM, John Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > I find the Google spokesman's attitude patronising and inaccurate - it > seems he hasn't really checked what can be done in other email > clients. I have no problem in routing incoming messages via rules set in MS > Outlook, so that emails from the PDML, for example, are sent to a specific folder > without my having to do anything. Same for my business accounts - they're > organised the way I want > them, not the way Google might think I want them. > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker > Sent: Friday, 6 September 2013 11:54 PM > To: Pentax Discuss Mailing List > Subject: OT: the end of email as we know it > > Apropos of all the email meta threads around here lately, and because > it's Friday. This article certainly describes my own experience. > Posting this from my Gmail browser tab. :-) > > http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-end-of-email-as-we-know-it > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
