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 > >-----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 > > >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. > >jcolby at colbyconsulting.com wrote: > > > >>But the question is, where in the chain of events did this happen? Was it >>our list server? >> >>John W. Colby >>www.colbyconsulting.com >> >>-----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 >> >> >>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. >> >>-- >>Support Pegasus Mail and Mercury. Visit >>http://www.cafeshops.com/pegasusmail >> >>Check out my free software at >>http://www.lexacorp.com.pg >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >AccessD mailing list >AccessD at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > >