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Date:	Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:53:54 PDT7
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Proper email spam filtering (was: Printer repair)

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In <3F021D5C.E1A@peterskye.com>, on 07/01/03
at 04:45 PM, Peter Skye said:

>count, phrasing, black hole lookups, private filtering techniques (hi
>Steven), there is simply no way a sender can know what message content
>will "work" and what won't.

>Thus, *you* as an email receiver have to set up your filters so that any
>messages which are erroneously flagged as junk/spam are still seen by
>you.

Agreed. In simpliest terms, all the filtering techniques are based on
determining the probability a the message is spam based on its content.
Sometimes, it's easy to assign the values 0 and 1 to the spam probability.
More often it's not.

Also, it's pretty much a given that any filter set you have today will
need to change in the future. The content of spam and non-spam messages
change over time In my case, I need to do whitelist updates for MR/2 ICE
or adjust the Bayesian filters in Polarbar.

Steven

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