Cormack, Ken wrote: > Would a Bayes analyzer deal with a spammer's efforts to "personalize" or > vary a subject line, with things such as:
> "Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], claim your dream vacation - 07/15/05" > "Hey [EMAIL PROTECTED], claim your dream vacation - #GGFS85F" > ...any more effectively than putting "dream vacation" into the subject block > database? Yes. A Bayes analyzer would pick up on patterns that a person might miss. We have a Bayes-sharing mechanism for CanIt customers called RPTN, and I am completely amazed at (1) the oddball things it picks up that I would never have thought about, and (2) how accurate it is. (Basically, RPTN aggregates "votes" from all of our CanIt customers and builds a Bayes database from them. We have about 90,000 messages and 900,000 tokens in our current database.) Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
