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

[Kevin Cozens]

At 09:55 AM 01/09/2004 +0000, 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.

That depends on the SPAM filter. I am using Spamassassin under Linux and so 
far it has worked properly. The odd SPAM gets left in my inbox but it 
hasn't yet classified any HAM as SPAM. It doesn't tell me why a message is 
SPAM but perhaps I haven't asked it to tell me the reasons.

Under Windows, I am testing Spamnix and it by default does tell you the 
reasons a message is classified as SPAM. I am using the plug-in for Eudora 
and if a message is mis-classified, there are buttons I can click on which 
allows me to tell Spamnix whether it should (or should not) have accepted 
as message as HAM.

Either way, these bayesian filters still gives me substantially less 
messages to filter manually even though I can usually tell HAM from SPAM 
just from the visible headers without the need to open the message.


Cheers!

Kevin.  (http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/)

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