On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Shelby Moore wrote:
I agree with Dean and I think conceptually that ALL existing anti-spam
(that is currently in public domain that I am aware of) is useless and
even harmful as Dean points out (in long run) because they filter things
which are not spam, just sometimes (even if most of time so far)
correlated to spam.
I do not think that _all_ anti-spam is useless. Only that some of the
less well considered ideas have been harmful.
I think that content analysis holds much promise. Only a few years ago, we
thought that speaker-independent voice recognition was science fiction.
Along similar lines, I think it will be possible for intelligent agents to
decide whether email is likely to be interesting to us.
--Dean