Hello Jernej, On Tuesday, November 30, 2004 at 22:18:06 GMT +0100 (which was 22:18:06 where I live), Jernej Simoncic wrote and made these valuable points on the subject of "K9 spam filter":
JS> On Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 22:02:04, Dick H. wrote: >> That's why I stopped using a Bayes based filter. The spammers are >> getting very smart and know their ways to "cheat" these filters. I >> installed a challenge/response based spam filter and not a single spam >> mail got to my inbox since then (and that without training it ;-) ). JS> No problems with bayesian filters here - OTOH, I ignore challenges from JS> challenge-response systems, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one. JS> Nothing is more annoying than somebody asking you for help, and then, when JS> you answer him, getting "Please reply to this message to confirm" or "Click JS> this link". (Well, there may be another, even more annoying thing - that is JS> C/R systems that autosubscribe themselves to mailing lists, or C/R that JS> challenges every poster to a mailing list). I fully understand your objections against such a system but there are challenge-response systems and challenge-response systems. Whenever I send a message to somebody (even when it is not yet in my address book) and this persons replies to my email, his answer will end up straight in my inbox and no message is being sent first for any confirmation. As I have loaded my address book in this filter, I haven't received any complaints from my friends, etc. (they simply don't know that I have such a filter active). What I have seen is that my blacklist is growing and growing with many spam email addresses. IMHO, I'm afraid that Bayes based spamfilters will lose the battle in the long run as the spammers will figure out ways to bypass it. -- Best regards, Dick ___________________________________________________________ My uncle just turned 75. He never married, and someone asked him if it was because he had never found the perfect woman. 'I found her,' he said. 'But she was looking for the perfect man.' Using The Bat! v3.0.2.8 on Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
