Re: [exim] SPAM Filtering - Losing the war!

On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:55:06PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> Sometime around Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:39:40 +0100, it may be that Chris
> Lightfoot wrote:
> >
> > remind me, to whom is the mail addressed?
>
> The user's *work* email address. So what ?

In your organisation, do email administrators have
management responsibility for determining what is, and
what is not, acceptable email for their colleagues /
superiors / whoever to be sending and receiving? If so, do
you think this is typical of other organisations which
employ people to manage their email systems?


More generally I think there's a very serious and very
common error among people who design ad-hoc antispam
systems of confusing feature extraction and machine
learning, of which the discussion here has shown some
useful examples.

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