From: Seth Kurtzberg <research@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T11:50:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Take a Fantasy Cruise with Me!

For those who are interested, I've put this exchange through spambayes 
and spamassassin for comparison purposes.  Spambayes produced zero 
false positives, putting the questionable messages into "unsure".

On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 07:40  PM, Ben Giddings wrote:

> On Mon August 4 2003 10:18 pm, Clifford Heath wrote:
>> "make.*reservation"
>> "thanks for.*regist"
>
> On this list I can easily imagine seeing:
>
>   Ruby Conference 2003 is rapidly approaching.  If you'd like to make a
>   reservation, talk to me, if you've already registered, thanks for 
> your
>   registration.
>
> The rules in Spam Assasin are pretty good though.  They nail most of 
> the
> nigerian scams, etc. that I see.  Mostly they seem to do it based on
> malformed / forged headers too, something that is much more clearly a 
> marking
> of a spam system, but harder for people to spot.
>
> It's just that it's always so hard to eliminate the false positives.
>
> Oh well, the good news is that there finally is a real-world purpose 
> to good
> AI programs.
>
> Ben
>
>
>
>
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