On 5/16/04 9:27 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No. Spammers can pretty quickly work around a lot of the "learning" of Bayesian filters. That's why you're seeing lost of plain text spam that includes long paragraphs of long Latinate words - they often get around filters which have learned to allow messages with some of these words. Instead, MS plan to update the filter from time to time. They're using the same Junk filter engines as Outlook, MSN and other MS programs - which gives them a HUGE sample to practice on and learn from - much more than you could ever do with your own little Bayesian checker.
Very interesting, and very good to learn as well. Filter updates – what a great idea. So there’s no big advantage to marking a message as “junk email” as opposed to deleting it, unless you are collecting junk mail for a corpus for a Bayesian filter or some such thing.
Actually, there is a reason to mark as junk. This is from Entourage’s Help:
Tip If you send and receive many messages, your list might become cluttered with unneeded addresses. One way to minimize this effect is to make sure that Junk E-Mail Protection is turned on. Senders of messages that Entourage classifies as junk are not added to the recently used address list.
This applies if you yourself mark messages as junk as well as Entourage.
bill
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William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)
