[Elecraft] Please do not use Earthlink's spam blocker

[Brendan Minish]

At 09:55 09/01/2004, Julian, G4ILO wrote:
>  I'm
>unconvinced about bayesian filters, as the newsgroups have plenty of
>reports from people who find they suddenly start letting through more spam
>and dumping wanted mail, and since you can't see why the filter made the
>decision it did, there's not a lot you can do about it.

This certainly isn't the case with popfile. you can see all the weightings, 
words that have been filtered on, the probabilities and see / edit all the 
dictionaries used. the main trick is to only teach it on mistakes.

some of the bayesian implementations make the mistake of only filtering on 
the body of the message, spammers get around this by misspelling everything 
giving filters that only use the body nothing to chew on. There's a lot of 
info in the headers that can help a filter decide if a certain mail is 
legit or junk.

One of the good points of popfile are that it is written in Perl so it will 
run on almost any platform and is open source.