Hello Kevin, Friday, January 23, 2004, 12:37:37 PM, you wrote:
KB> I have been testing Kami's Nigerian filter and found that in 3 days it KB> flagged 56 email and only caught out of 5 nigerian scam emails. KB> I do not see this as a fault of Kami's effort but a fault of filtering. Some KB> of the line are very common in ligitimate email. I even lowered all the KB> weights to match our weighting scores. We will not be using it. Once I did KB> that then the nigerian scam email did not get enough weight to be flagged KB> properly. KB> For the effort it is not worth the results, in my opinion. Sniffer has a number of rules for nigerian scam email. So far we've never had a reported false positive for one of those rules. Perhaps the reason is that we can provide more complex filtering matching combinations of phrases from different segments of the message. _M __________________________________________ Peter G McNeil (Madscientist, CodeDweller) President, MicroNeil Research Corporation. Chief SortMonster, www.SortMonster.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
