Re: Email Newsletters

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2003


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 47415
interpreted = N
texte = On 2/4/03 1:40 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote:> Bayesian Spam Filtering (that's the best of the new stuff) does a > statistical word analysis of the entire email message. Based on words > you use in your from, subject, other headers and body, it determines if > a message is SPAM. there are no rules and it doesn't get tricked very > easily. It is built in to the email program distributed with Mac OSX > 10.2 called Mail.app. I have been using it for several months now, and > my spam, with no rule writing on my part, has dropped from 200 messages > a day in my inbox to 2-4 a day. (some days=none) You can personalize > the message all you want, doesn't matter. It now catches commercial > email that I probably did sign up to receive, as well as all of their > partners who now also seem to have my email address. Do I care? Not > really. opt-in promo email only works if the recipient only gets a few > emails a day, after that, they all become noise. A bit off subject I admit but here is a prediction: Ultimately spam will move from text to images which will be very difficult to screen and you will have a hard time stopping all of them without cutting off lots of legitimate emails with images in them.This will not only send it all back to the drawing board... But ultimately will worsen the impact of spam on networks due to the increase in bandwidth usage.Just an opinion of course. Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Email Newsletters (Stuart Tremain 2003)
  2. Re: Email Newsletters (Alain Russell 2003)
  3. Re: Email Newsletters (Timur Ruban 2003)
  4. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  5. Re: Email Newsletters (WJ Starck 2003)
  6. Re: Email Newsletters (Timur Ruban 2003)
  7. Re: Email Newsletters [OT] (Clint Davis 2003)
  8. Re: Email Newsletters [OT] (Gyuri 2003)
  9. Re: Email Newsletters (Alex McCombie 2003)
  10. Re: Email Newsletters (Don 2003)
  11. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  12. Re: Email Newsletters (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  13. Re: Email Newsletters (Jeff Logan 2003)
  14. Re: Email Newsletters (Gyuri 2003)
  15. Re: Email Newsletters (Alain Russell 2003)
  16. Re: Email Newsletters (Brian B. Burton 2003)
  17. Re: Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
  18. Re: Email Newsletters (Alex McCombie 2003)
  19. Re: Email Newsletters (Jeff Logan 2003)
  20. Email Newsletters (Clint Davis 2003)
On 2/4/03 1:40 PM, Brian B. Burton wrote:> Bayesian Spam Filtering (that's the best of the new stuff) does a > statistical word analysis of the entire email message. Based on words > you use in your from, subject, other headers and body, it determines if > a message is SPAM. there are no rules and it doesn't get tricked very > easily. It is built in to the email program distributed with Mac OSX > 10.2 called Mail.app. I have been using it for several months now, and > my spam, with no rule writing on my part, has dropped from 200 messages > a day in my inbox to 2-4 a day. (some days=none) You can personalize > the message all you want, doesn't matter. It now catches commercial > email that I probably did sign up to receive, as well as all of their > partners who now also seem to have my email address. Do I care? Not > really. opt-in promo email only works if the recipient only gets a few > emails a day, after that, they all become noise. A bit off subject I admit but here is a prediction: Ultimately spam will move from text to images which will be very difficult to screen and you will have a hard time stopping all of them without cutting off lots of legitimate emails with images in them.This will not only send it all back to the drawing board... But ultimately will worsen the impact of spam on networks due to the increase in bandwidth usage.Just an opinion of course. Alex J McCombie New World Media Chief Information Officer Drawer 607 800/724.8973 Fair Haven, NY 13064 Alex@NewWorldMedia.com http://OurClients.comInterface Designer WebDNA Programmer Database Designer------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/ Alex McCombie

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