On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:39:11 +1000, Chris Drake wrote
Meng: you need to tell people in your spec that "softfail" will cause
all baysian-equipped email clients (inc. all mozilla/thunderbird/etc
ones) to silently eradicate legitimate emails.
...
Maybe you don't, but some other people DO rely upon email in
life-and-death situations, and huge numbers rely upon it for
important financial reasons, so it is up to us to try and restore
the concept of email from it's new "uselessly unreliable" status
before it's too late.
Anyone who relies on email for "life-and-death situations" should NOT be using
client-side baysian filtering (or any client-side filtering, for that matter.)
If they are, it's their own fault when they lose legitimate mail. Baysian
filtering generates false positives by design -- they're a necessary part of
the training process.