Hello Philip, Tuesday, June 1, 2004, 5:57:30 PM, you wrote:
PS> The most common anti-spam plugin for The Bat! (BayesIt) primarily uses PS> a statistical analysis of the email - it looks for words that are PS> common to spam, but not to legitimate email. PS> In your example, the words "all for nothing" are perhaps important - PS> if you don't get legitimate emails regularly that contain them, then PS> they'll get assigned a greater weight of spamminess. PS> The actual spamminess score of the whole email is calculated by PS> looking at how many words in the mail are common spam words, and how PS> many aren't - notice how many spams are very short? They'll score PS> highly. Whereas that legitimate email from a cable TV company will be PS> long - it'll have lots of details, some boilerplate legal stuff, and PS> so forth. So the email as a whole scores much lower. I was using the menu items for marking junk. But so far it hadn't had a clear effect. It moved the messages I was on to a Junk mail folder. But it did not act on later mail. How can you tell what the score was given to an e-mail? Let's say I go to the Bat Preferences/ Anti-Spam. At the top, it says Anti-Spam plugins. And in the white box, it says BayesIt! Does this mean it is currently doing spam processing? If I click F1 now, it says: "The topic does not exist. Contact your application vendor for an updated Help file." Now, if I move along, and manage to click Configure, I get another menu of buttons. The top button seems to be asking me what language I would like to use. Now, I guess that is very friendly. Although, spam seems to be multi-national, doesn't it? And it doesn't matter whose inbox it flies into, or what country they may live. It is the same class of a thing in any case. Now, If I try this button here, I get a screen and it says I can pick a language from a list. But there does not seem to be a list from which a selection can be made. Is this the same for you? PS> Not necessarily. You can use systems like POPFile with The Bat!, but PS> personally I don't see much value in doing so. Filters that sit in PS> front of mail clients (like POPFile) take longer to train and are much PS> less likely to build up a good base of statistics that show what your Is the base of statistics visible to the user? -- Best regards, Adam ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.10.03 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
