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Subject: Re: ISPs Wrongly Block 1 in 8 Messages for Spam
From: bwarsaw @ python . org (Barry A. Warsaw)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:11:24 -0500
To: "list-managers" <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
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>>>>> "SB" == Sean Brunnock <brunnock@server.com> writes:

    SB> .  I don't think that SpamAssassin is sophisticated enough to
    SB> determine the content of a message written in a foreign
    SB> language.

    SB> People love and praise SpamAssassin, but I think it just
    SB> arbitrarily blocks all bulk mail.

People who are interested in better spam blockers should check out the
spambayes project on SourceForge:

    http://spambayes.sf.net/

This is a Bayesian classifier for detecting spam.  When properly
trained (and that's the trick) it has extremely low false positive and
false negative rates.

-Barry


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