> Actually, I find that 1.3 and 1.4 still have issues with determining > spam. While fairly decent, one still has to go through looking for false > positives. The other issue is that spammers have been doing a good job > at designing emails to fool filters. I'm starting to see more and more > spam designed to defeat Baynesian filters. By including "good" words in > their emails, they either make good words spammy so that you get more > FP's or they make their email clean enough that it's still in your > inbox. The worst part of it is that spam is quickly becoming unreadable, > so that legitimate emails that are readable are the emails more likely > filtered. > I hope I never get your "legitimate" email. :) Since about 100 messages I practically stopped visiting the Junk folder every now and then because no false positives occurred. Just for the sake of this message, I peeked into the folder and scrolled trough the last ~300 messages and all spam.
About one in 50 does not get flagged and this stream has already gone through the basic checks like that sender needs to have a legit domain name and such. So I´m happy camper and I hope that legislation catches up with spammers before they figure out a surefire way to defeat Baynesians. Pete