RE: [NF] Testing Spam Blocker

Author: Bill Arnold

Posted: 2004-10-28 at 17:42:23

Unfortunately, no. I've been using Spambeyes for a while now, and it's

obvious the spammers are onto it, because they include title lines and

wording that closely mimic anything a friend would say. Therefore, spambeyes

filtering is causing more and more friendly mail to get thrown into the spam

bucket, which means we have to go through the spam bucket with a close eye,

which gets us back to step 1.

Bill

> > I firmly believe that the solution to the problem is legislation and

> > enforcement at the ISP level using a (sophisticated) no-spam list

> > mechanic. By 'sophisticated', I mean giving users the ability to

> > customize their definition of spam, e.g. someone who wants

> spam about

> > mortgages could add the keyword 'mortgages' to their 'okay' list.

>

> So, basically, Bayesian filtering, yes?

©2004 Bill Arnold