example, you could catch most spam by simply rejecting email that
didn't contain your address on the To or CC lines. Spammers learned
this and now individually address most of their spam.
Here's a Web page that discusses spam and Bayesian Filtering in
detail:
http://www.paulgraham.co
mail out of hand. This seems kinda draconian to me. I'll
bet a lot of those rejections are false positives. POPFile actually
reads the HTML and can correctly distinguish spam-HTML from
non-spam-HTML.
Anyway, that's my (limited) experience.
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Joel Johnstone
Using The Bat! v1.53t
I spent about six months writing software that looked for individual
> spam features before I tried the statistical approach. What I found
> was that recognizing that last few percent of spams got very hard, and
> that as I made the filters stricter I got more false positives.
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Joel Johnst
mailbox so only one client can connect at a
time. But even that generally won't cause a problem. The clients
should just retry until they get through.
-- Joel Johnstone Using The Bat! v1.53t on Windows NT 5.0 Build
2195 Service Pack 3
Current ver
rings with the pipe | character to create
a Logical Or condition. For example, to filter out Sam & Dan, you
could write:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender Yes
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Joel Johnstone
Using The Bat! v1.53t on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195
Service Pack 3
_
OTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]
As it turns out, you don't need to select Regular Expressions to use
the '|' operator. I guess they included that as a simple shorthand.
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Joel Johnstone
Using The Bat! v1.53t on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195
Service Pack 3
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