Adam Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Saturday, November 9, 2002, 6:01:24 PM
> Saturday, November 9, 2002, 8:52:35 PM, rick wrote: >> after 2 days it is working quite well. It uses probability instead of >> static filters. Works wonderful so far. > Are you just using it to filter spam? I was interested in replacing > all my bat rules with this, but I don't know how well it would work. > Given that my current filters get 90% of my spam anyway, I'm not sure > it's worth it. POPinfo doesn't replace your The Bat filters; it complements them. POPinfo adds a special header to your e-mail to designate the type of e-mail, you set up your filters to sort e-mail based on that header. It's not just for filtering spam - you can filter your e-mail on ANYTHING. I've been playing with it a couple of hours, and I've got it set up to take over all my e-mail filtering. Seems to be working out pretty well - it already knows where to put my mailing list mail and this is after filtering a mere 14 messages. Pretty impressive. Of course, you don't need fancy-shmancy Bayesian statistical analysis just to filter out mailing lists. And, as you say, there's existing technology that already does a good job of filtering out spam. The REAL question for me is, can I teach it to separate high-priority legitimate e-mail from less important e-mail which is still legitimate? I'm a technology journalist - can I teach POPfilter to separate the big announcements from big companies from the minor announcements? (I can't just tell it to flag all e-mail from Microsoft and Sun as important - sometimes those guys make minor announcements.) Can I teach it to flag e-mail from my friends, family and co-workers as important, unless they're just forwarding jokes? I'm really very impressed with POPinfo. Mitch Wagner Technology Journalism and Consulting Resumé and clips www.mitchwagner.com +1 (619) 461-4316 ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
