[AccessD] OT Wierd Bayesian Filters

we dont filter for content

Lembit Soobik

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To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
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Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:33 AM
Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT Wierd Bayesian Filters


> But the question is, where in the chain of events did this happen?  Was it
> our list server?
>
> John W. Colby
> www.colbyconsulting.com
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Stuart
> McLachlan
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 7:36 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: RE: [AccessD] OT Wierd Bayesian Filters
>
>
> On 23 Jul 2003 at 13:39, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
>
> > After my hasty post I did some research on Bayesian filtering and it would
> > appear to be the case that either the implementation of the filtering is
> > bad, as you say, and/or the filtering system was not given a large enough
> > sample of good and bad emails to work with when it was set up in the first
> > place.
> >
>
> I had my doubts about whether this is a Bayesian filter so did a web
> search on "Trend SMEX content filter". All I could find at first was
> thousands of articles/postings similar to this thread saying what a
> piece of cr*p the filter was :-)
>
> Finally found it as Trendmicros eManager (part of Scanmail).
> Although they don't say how it works explicitly , it appears to use
> dictionary based rule matching, not Bayesian logic.
>
> Their site search engine doesn't recognise the word "bayesian" on
> their website  and searching for it in their knowledgebase timed out
> every time.
>
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