Hello Gleason, Wednesday, June 8, 2005, 10:41:58 AM, you wrote:
GP> On the other hand, I'm not sure I agree with the concept of a spam GP> filter. It searches for offending words and uses a probability GP> algorithm, right? The problem is that there are people who can GP> send me sexy emails, and there are also people that I buy things GP> from. I find that a purchase confirmation will end up in Eudora's GP> junk file almost without fail. Then the Bayes filter is not working correctly. It is not a "word filter" in the sense of the old Outlook Express mail rules. There are some great explanations of how Bayesian filters work on the interenet that are much better than anything I could type up here. You should understand that information if you want to know why bayesian filtering is such a useful tool ... at least for now. Having said that, there are a lot of little tweeks that need to be done to make a bayesian filter work well. Mine has never gotten a false positive, but that is because I have the threshold set relatively high, and so have more spam get through. GP> I get pretty good results by specifying likely offending phrases GP> (like investor alert or cialis) and having TB put them in the junk GP> folder. Those go 100% of the time. Until they use C I A L 1 S or other manglings that you can read but slide right through your word filters. It is an ever escalating battle. We come up with new tools to protect us, "they" come up with new ways around the tools <sigh> -- Best regards, MikeD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Using The Bat! v3.5.25 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 2 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.5.26 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
