Infinite Monkeys and other BLs

[Chris W. Parker]

Richard Lynch <mailto:rich at MAIL.WVNET.EDU>
    on Wednesday, March 17, 2004 4:08 PM said:

> What I want is
> accurate denial of messages based solely on content rather than where
> it comes from. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

what about bayesian filtering?

i've got ms doing basic sa, and attachment type based filtering. this
lets through more spam than i'd like but [1] i'm using an old version of
ms and sa, and [2] i don't use any advanced features (bayesian, rbl,
pyzor/razor, etc.). however, i've got a bayesian filter for outlook 2000
installed and it catches everything else.

i've never had a false negative* so i imagine that if i put bayesian at
the gateway my spam count would go way down at the client level if not
disappear.


chris.

* i always get confused on this but.. false negative is when spam is not
detected as being spam right? and a false positive is when non-spam *is*
detected as spam?