Blocking Spam

[Les Mikesell]

Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 December 2006 17:09, jdow wrote:
> 
>>>> whack
> 
>> Scores. The magic is in scores. No single rule (usually) should be
>> allowed to define spam. (BAYES_99 is good enough here I score it
>> high enough to guarantee markup as spam. Then I rely on the small
>> number of negative scoring rules to save random ham messages that
>> might get all the way to 0.99 BAYES spam probability.)
>>
>> Besides, WTF good is Bayes with image spam?
>> {^_^}
> 
> Answering a question with a question: When was the last time that anyone 
> received an email with a GIF image that was _not_ spam?

Around Christmas time?  Probably almost everyone who has friends with
a digital camera and children...  Actually those will usually be
jpegs but you are also likely to get letters with some embedded
festive gifs from people other than advertisers. Of course if you
reject all your email without reading it you might not have any
friends...

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   Les Mikesell
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