Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:03:46AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 21:46:29 -0400
> Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman13.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > For your sanity, I recommend using a bayesian filter[1] and training it
> > to recognize such noise as spam and filter the spam into a junk
> > bucket.
>
> I've always wondered why the lists aren't running Bayesian filters
> on the front end for crap like this.
Newsflash: they are. They're just not perfect, unfortunately.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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