on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:02:59PM -0600, Jason R. Mastaler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > I stand corrected:  this is a stated assumption:
> >
> >     http://tmda.net/
> >
> >     2. Content-based filters can't distinguish SPAM from legitimate mail
> >        with sufficient accuracy.
> >
> > What is the supporting basis for this statement?
> 
> My personal experience.

Please quantify your personal experience.

As I have:

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html
    
    I might add that I myself use a mix of whitelisting and spam
    filtering (via SpamAssassin) to filter my own mail with a very high
    level of accuracy, in terms of true positives, true negatives, false
    positives, and false negatives. Namely: better than 98% true
    positive (filtered spam), less than 2% false negative (unfiltered
    spam), 99.98% true negative (unfiltered non-spam), and less than
    0.02% false positive (filtered non-spam). While some C-R proponents
    claim filtering doesn't work, it clearly does. 

Also:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2002/debian-user-200204/msg04379.html
    http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/SpamEmailTrends
    http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2002/4/21/141757/571/37#37

Peace.

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