[AccessD] OT Wierd Bayesian Filters

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Thu Jul 24 12:56:29 CDT 2003


No It is scanned at recipients mail server, you receive a message back 
just like a bounced message.

jcolby at colbyconsulting.com wrote:

>Does this mean something on my local machine?  Something at my pop server?
>
>John W. Colby
>www.colbyconsulting.com
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
>Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 1:16 PM
>To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
>Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT Wierd Bayesian Filters
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>At the receiving end.
> I even get edification messages from Deloite-Touche in New Zealand that
>I am spreading viruses
>on a list server if I use the words subroutine dim end in a text message.
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>jcolby at colbyconsulting.com wrote:
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>>But the question is, where in the chain of events did this happen?  Was it
>>our list server?
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>>John W. Colby
>>www.colbyconsulting.com
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
>>[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
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>>On 23 Jul 2003 at 13:39, Heenan, Lambert wrote:
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>>>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.
>>>
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>>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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