Hello Mitch,

Saturday, November 9, 2002, 9:25:35 PM, you wrote:

MW> Adam Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Saturday, November 9, 2002, 
6:01:24 PM

>> Saturday, November 9, 2002, 8:52:35 PM, rick wrote:

>>> after 2 days it is working quite well. It uses probability instead of
>>> static filters. Works wonderful so far.

>> Are you just using it to filter spam? I was interested in replacing
>> all my bat rules with this, but I don't know how well it would work.
>> Given that my current filters get 90% of my spam anyway, I'm not sure
>> it's worth it.

MW> POPinfo doesn't replace your The Bat filters; it complements them.
MW> POPinfo adds a special header to your e-mail to designate the type of
MW> e-mail, you set up your filters to sort e-mail based on that header.

POPFile eliminated over 100 of my spam filters. I think that is what
the poster was wanting to know.



MW> Of course, you don't need fancy-shmancy Bayesian statistical analysis
MW> just to filter out mailing lists. And, as you say, there's existing
MW> technology that already does a good job of filtering out spam.

POPFile was not designed for filtering out mailing lists. It was
designed for spam.


-- 
Best regards,
 rick


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