On 09/24/02 at 16:53, Jeff Alpher wrote: > i sent other mail using a different domain from the same server > (alpher.org) and this went through w/o a hitch. so i'm going w/ the > "doubleclick in the domain" theory for now. i'll just have my friend > keep an eye open for my junk mail until mail.app learns who i am.
That should happen pretty quickly. I gather that the new Mail.app in Jaguar uses some flavor of Bayesian filter, which is why it needs to be 'trained' by showing it examples of 'good' and 'bad' messages. I've just recently started using a Bayesian filter with Mailsmith[1], and can say from my experience that once the filter has a sufficiently large corpus of words (a few hundred messages worth), it becomes remarkably accurate at distinguishing spam from legitimate mail. If you're interested in learning out about Bayesian filters as applied to spam filtering, check out Paul Graham's 'A Plan for Spam' at <http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>. It makes me start to wish that SIMS could do content-based filtering. I would drop IP blacklists in an instant in favor of a workable server-side Bayesian filter. There would probably be a few interesting problems to solve in implementing such a filter on the server side, though, not the least of which would be creating a mechanism for users to add messages to the corpus. --- [1] The filter I'm using is SpamSieve. In addition to Mailsmith, it also works with Entourage and PowerMail, and the author says that he plans to eventually support Eudora. <http://www.c-command.com/spamsieve/> -- Christopher Bort | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster, Global Homes | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.globalhomes.com/> ############################################################# This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the INDEX mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send administrative queries to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
