Autor: Matt Fretwell Data: Dla: exim Temat: Re: [exim] Has anyone done this?
Peter Bowyer wrote:
> I'm not usually quick to come to Marc's defence, but as long as he's
> not using this as a block/noblock test but as an input to a decision
> tree or a bayesian system, it could be quite useful.
>
> He says that if he finds 587,465 and 783 open, he considers this a
> non-spam indicator. I agree. What he doesn't say is that he will
> consider the message likely spam if those ports are not open. Which
> would be wrong.
The above, if that is the way it was intended, I will digress and concur
with, (to some degree). However, with it being tagged onto his existing
thread, the implementation scenario is the questionable part.
And call me paranoid, but I really do fear there are worse questions to
come :)