[ On Sunday, September 1, 2002 at 11:46:23 (-0500), Schmehl, Paul L wrote: ]
> Subject: RE: Using blacklists and RBL's with Postfix
>
> What I *meant* was "filter spam based on addresses" **in body and header
> checks**.

Ah, well, indeed I agree with that too then!

However I personally thing that any attempt at simple matching of
content in the body, and especially in the headers, to identify spam is
very naive (some simple matches catch virii and other computer generated
and repetitive junk once it's been uniquely identified, but spam by its
nature is far more random than that).

That's not to say that I don't believe spam can be identified. I always
thought statistical analysis might lead to some good ideas and now
finally someone's studied the issue in detail and showed that for
individual users such analysis may prove very effective:

        http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Seems Apple will/have included an implementation of their new Mail
application for Mac OS X too.

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