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Re: Apology Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

2004-03-18 11:50:10
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Ed Gerck wrote:



Dean Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ed Gerck wrote:

Dean Anderson wrote:

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Ed Gerck wrote:
What information theory says is that the probability of detecting
spam is less than 100%.

No, information theory doesn't say that at all.

Sure it says, and that's why a spam filter will never be 100%
effective. I guess we agreed on this before ;-)

I think you must have missed my message noting our disagreement.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg24213.html

Let me make sure. You think then that a spam filter can be 100% 
efficient? If you do, please log off and go sell it. If you
don't then I agree with you.

No, that isn't what I said.   You need to re-read the message. It is 
fairly clear.

                --Dean