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face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> spambayes-bounces@python.org
[mailto:spambayes-bounces@python.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Katz,
Amir<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=568233917-12042004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#800000>Just my
$0.02: one of the recent strains of viruses/worms goes into a person's address
book and sends mails either to those addresses faking the 'From:' or
uses those addresses as the 'From:'. If you unquestionably trust whitelisting,
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color=#0000ff size=2>True, but we are trying to block spam, not
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color=#0000ff size=2>My personal experience is that the breakdown of
spam/viruses is about 95%/5%, so taking care of these 95% is a good first
move.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=397245417-12042004>As for the other 5%, I leave
it up to server-side, client-side or human-side (me :-)) blocking, but I think
that extending SpamBayes to cover viruses as well would threaten to limit its
efficiency in blocking pure spam.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=397245417-12042004>One tool for each
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<DIV><SPAN class=568233917-12042004><FONT face=Tahoma color=#800000>OTH, since
the whole point of spams is the mail messages' contents (buy something),
Bayesian is the way since it checks at the part that must contain meaningful
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<DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=568233917-12042004><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=397245417-12042004>No argument
there.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left>-- </DIV>
<DIV align=left>Cédric</DIV>
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