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Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability?
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:19:14 -0400
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:52:00 +0200, Luca Berra <bluca () comedia it> said:
I hold that after suitable training of the spam filter (this includes generation of whitelists and such), dropping mail into oblivion is perfectly safe.
Assume a spam filter that's 99.8% accurate. This is probably a *high* estimate - we're talking only 2 errors per every thousand mails... Assume several million messages a day (which is *not* a very large load by today's standards - we're merely a large university, and even *after* subtracting spam and virus mail, we're in that range)... Calculate how many mails get dropped into oblivion each day. I suspect that you and I have differing definitions of "*perfectly* safe".....
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- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Kyle Wheeler (Jun 21)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Martin Mačok (Jun 22)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) David F. Skoll (Jun 23)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) der Mouse (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Luca Berra (Jun 22)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Sean Straw / PSE (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? John Fitzgibbon (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Sean Straw / PSE (Jun 25)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? The Fungi (Jun 25)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Michael A. Dickerson (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Sean Straw / PSE (Jun 24)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) der Mouse (Jun 25)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? (silently dropping messages) Seth Breidbart (Jun 25)
- Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability? Crispin Cowan (Jun 22)