On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 13:22:53 -0400, François Pinard wrote:
[David MacQuigg]
The key new features needed in a spam filter are the ability to
extract the sender's identity (not that of the latest forwarder), and
to factor into the spam score the reputation of that identity.
This will only work
[David MacQuigg]
Getting these methods widely and effectively used is our big
challenge, and one that I hope to accomplish with my efforts.
I wish one of these methods, either yours or one of these few others
which were developed and proposed in the recent years, will succeed. It
might be
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:46:28 -0700, rumours say that David MacQuigg dmq
at pobox.com might have written:
I'm writing some scripts to check incoming mail against a registry of
reputable senders, using the new authentication methods. Python is
ideal for this because it will give mail-system admins
David MacQuigg dmq at pobox.com writes:
[...]
I haven't used Spambayes, but my experience with Spamnix (an offshoot
of Spam Assassin) is that statistical filters always have a few false
rejects. In my case, that's about two per week.
[...]
That is precisely the problem that Bayesian filtering
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:36:28 -0400, François Pinard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[David MacQuigg]
Getting these methods widely and effectively used is our big
challenge, and one that I hope to accomplish with my efforts.
I wish one of these methods, either yours or one of these few others
which
Before you do too much work you should probably check out:
http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/
There has already been a lot of work done on this project.
FYI, Larry
David MacQuigg wrote:
Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the
pessimism and lack of progress these last
David MacQuigg wrote:
Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the
pessimism and lack of progress these last two years? Do you have
faith that an open-source project can do better than the big companies
competing for a lock-in solution? If so, you might be interested in
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:18:37 -0400, Peter Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
David MacQuigg wrote:
Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the
pessimism and lack of progress these last two years? Do you have
faith that an open-source project can do better than the big
[David MacQuigg]
The key new features needed in a spam filter are the ability to
extract the sender's identity (not that of the latest forwarder), and
to factor into the spam score the reputation of that identity.
This will only work if your system is immune to forgeries, while being
largely
Are you as mad about spam as I am? Are you frustrated with the
pessimism and lack of progress these last two years? Do you have
faith that an open-source project can do better than the big companies
competing for a lock-in solution? If so, you might be interested in
the Open-Mail project.
I'm
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