Re: [Evolution] Spam Blocking :: Bayesian Filtering

[Tony Earnshaw <tonni billy demon nl>]

fre, 2002-08-16 kl. 21:04 skrev Christopher Ness:

> In order for this filtering to occur it cannot happen on the server - I
> suppose it could, but would be very taxing on resources - since each
> person needs to taylor (pun intended) the probabilities of tokens
> (words) to the type of spam and valid emails they get both in the
> message and the header.

Hmmm ... let's just say that I don't agree with this. Nor do 1,001
(10,001, 100,001?) Unix sysadmins that use Spamassassin.

> Can others see how valuable a leading edge feature like this could be in
> Evo?

What on earth is the point of duplicating, quadrupling, 10-folding,
100-folding, 1000-folding a service that can take place at a single
point? Even if the spam attacks are so horrendous, that one has to have
a dedicated smtp router to cope with it? Which may or may not be likely.

How about going back to the time when there was no virus (G*d save us,
Microsoft clients) scanner on the incoming servers?

Sorry, but the idea does not appeal and I would not use it.

Best,

Tony

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