Just my two cents. If I am right, Spam Sieve uses a statistical approach to detect spam. In this case, it is almost impossible, once Spam Sieve is trained, to have spam that comes through.
But, if one's email gets to some new spammer, who uses words that were not used in spam messages until now, Spam Sieve might well think that those emails are not spam. The user needs then to train Spam Sieve some more to prevent emails from this new spammer. On my computer, I add as spam every spam message that gets to my inbox, so Spam Sieve get trained and I still have a huge 99.4 percent of correct guesses (taken from 01.01.2003 until now)... And I think that I am seriously spammed, since I get from 40 to 50 spam messages each day (yes, I've been stupid enough to click on some "unsubscribe now" links...). Hope this helps.. Sébastien -------------------------------------- Sebastien Pennec [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Cuk: Humeurs et Tests Mac Cuk: Thoughts and Reviews for the Mac Web: http://www.cuk.ch/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: >>since a couple of weeks only I see some very short spams, eg just a title >>and an http address -since there are few words some of these have started >>"passing" SpamSieve... Are your new junkmails very short? > >I do have a number of mails coming in like that, but some standard ones >are also being missed, too. Even ones that have words in the titles >(such as for body parts...) that clearly label them as Spam. > >Don't get me wrong, it's doing a good job, it's just that I'm a bit >dissapointed because the same software had been doing a better job. > >To Mr. Tsai: Thanks for your reply on how to tweak the software, but I >stupidly deleted it before acting upon it. Could you send that >information to the group again? > >--- > >Scott T. Hards >President >HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com) > > > > >
