"Data Vortex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hey all, throught some of you might be interested to read a spam
> filtering article on kuro5hin that mentions TMDA:

Thanks, I generally have no idea when TMDA appears in an article
unless someone tells me.

I'll respond a bit to the article's criticism of TMDA.

For one, it says:

``It wouldn't work if everyone did it''

but doesn't explain why. What could the author mean by this?

It also says:

``and it may cause some of your correspondents to just give up without
confirming that they are human, effectively causing false positives.''

Those who have used TMDA for a period of time know this is a
misconception, but even if it wasn't; I'm more comfortable with this
than a classifier which accidentally trashes a message it "thinks" is
spam. At least with TMDA, the sender has the choice whether or not to
let his message be delivered to you. With a classifier, he will assume
it has been delivered when it has not been, creating a communications
rift.
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