Re: GC, existed? the foreigner

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@acm.org> wrote in message
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> If none of your _real_ email contains words like "egret," "beseech,"
> or "shibboleth," then it certainly won't look like "ham."

The initial description of Baysian filters included a rule that anything
unrecognized was considered 10% chance of being spam. In that case, sticking
any garbage into a message will help get it passed. I doubt that current
filters work that way, but I don't know for sure.

In any case, no single type of spam filter is going to trap all of the junk.
You need multiple types of filters to get the
junk-mistakenly-allowed-through rate low enough (1 per day is my target, or
0.1%).

This is true of security in general as well. No single kind of defense is
sufficient; you need many kinds (firewalls, anti-virus, anti-spam, etc.)

                       Randy.