Re: Spam Help

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From: Vanguardx (see_signature)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:30:06 -0500

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com>
wrote in news:OCULS1ujEHA.644@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:
> Vanguardx wrote:
>
> My goodness, what a novel! I can see this is a topic you take quite
> seriously. :-)

What I'd really like to find out is the effectiveness of SpamBayes
against *just* the Bayesian plug-in for SpamPal. It could be that one
of them is much better than the other but I haven't found any
independent comparisons and testing of them yet. The same population of
test e-mails (good and bad) would have to be used for both starting from
a pristine state. A feature comparison would be handy, too.

Since SpamPal already has a Bayes filter and I have seen that it does
work (once trained) and since SpamPal includes many more spam detection
mechanisms, I figure that even if their Bayesian plug-in was a little
less effective than SpamBayes then I'd still stick with SpamPal and its
Bayesian plug-in. But if the Bayesian plug-in in SpamPal sucked in
comparison to SpamBayes then I'd seriously consider replacing SpamPal's
Bayesian plug-in with SpamBays (as yet another proxy because of me using
e-mail clients besides Outlook so the plug-in wouldn't work for me).

SpamPal is great but it's not like I have any stake in that software.
If something is superior to SpamPal and/or its plug-ins then it's
something that I'll check out. It's just that Bayesian filtering is
just one way to detect spam, and I like having a multitude of ways to
flush those turds from my mailbox, especially if all those detection
methods are rolled into one product.

If SpamBayes proved to be far superior to SpamPal's Bayesian plug-in,
and because I use more than e-mail client than just Outlook (I use Magic
and Outlook Express, too) which obviates using the SpamBayes plug-in so
I would have to use the SpamBayes proxy, I'd have to configure yet
another proxy in the chain between my e-mail clients and my ISP's mail
server along with the inherent reduction of stability. For my ISP's
mail account, my e-mail client just goes through SpamPal. For my
freebie Yahoo Mail accounts, my e-mail client goes through SpamPal which
goes through YahooPOPs, so adding yet another proxy for SpamBayes starts
to get a bit too much configuration and management than I care for. I
like effective, but I also like easy and lazy. 

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