Mike,
Thursday, June 12, 2003, 7:16:00 AM, you wrote:
MA> Good to be back with you. Though not a complete package, I am
MA> having good results catching Spam with TheBat!
You may not be interested in this after spending so much time on your
current system, but a friend of mine recently turned me on to a
program called POPFile.
POPFile is free, open source, ridiculously easy to install and
configure (10 minutes), and works *very well* on spam. Here's the
URL:
http://popfile.sourceforge.net/
POPFile uses a Bayesian Filtering algorithm to classify your email
into "buckets" (e.g, Good & Spam). You just need to ad *one filtering
rule* in The Bat!
Bayesian Filtering has been shown to work better on spam than other
approaches (e.g., keyword matching, blacklisting, etc.) because it
automatically adapts as spammers change their tactics. A year ago,
for example, you could catch most spam by simply rejecting email that
didn't contain your address on the To or CC lines. Spammers learned
this and now individually address most of their spam.
Here's a Web page that discusses spam and Bayesian Filtering in
detail:
http://www.paulgraham.com/antispam.html
--
Joel Johnstone
Using The Bat! v1.53t on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195
Service Pack 3
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