[Spambayes] Re: Mail-Filters' Anti-spam Approach (Gregg Foster)

[Patrick Keogh]

Dear Gregg,

What a great idea, and so easy to get up and running!
All you have to do is to make SpamCure open source and
then we will be able to work together. It sounds like
there is room for improvement if you're getting 5% false
negatives. I think you'll find that most users of
SpamBayes (including myself) routinely get less that 1%
false negatives.

I wish you luck in selling your product, but right now it
sounds like SpamBayes has a technical edge, and is quite
a bit cheaper :-)

Patrick

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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:09:18 -0700
From: "Gregg Foster" <gfoster at mail-filters.com>
Subject: [Spambayes] FW: Mail-Filters' Anti-spam Approach
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-----Original Message-----
From: Gregg Foster [mailto:gfoster at mail-filters.com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:36 AM
To: SpamBayes at python.org
Subject: Mail-Filters' Anti-spam Approach


I am writing to you to propose a new business relationship.  We've already
closed some OEM deals recently, including two that already offer an
anti-spam solution.  I expect these to become public knowledge in August.
Because we do things differently (i.e. spam signatures), our current
partners liked our technology because it added value to what they do and
didn't repeat what they were already doing.  I know you already have a very
good Bayesian filter technology in your scanning engine, but I'm confident
our technology would add significant value to what you already provide.

We are actively marketing SpamCure to OEM partners because it is one of the
best anti-spam servers on the market, catching more than 95% of the spam,
but most importantly, achieving an accuracy greater than 1 in 100,000 false
positives.  Our proprietary database has been 100% created by Mail-Filters -
without the use of public RBLs which provide so many false positives.  The
way we catch spam is different than most competitive filters.  We have
developed a unique database of spam signatures that we have derived from
real spam.  As part of developing our own enterprise anti-spam server, our
database has emerged as the very best resource for messages to be identified
as spam.  It is also available as an integrated solution with our partners
using our API.  Our database of signatures are continually updated in
real-time to maintain currency, accuracy and effectiveness.

I would appreciate your reply so that I can talk in more detail about our
technology and set up an web account so you can validate our statistics for
yourselves using our Testing Option #1.  I am confident you will see the
same satisfaction as others have.  From that point we can discuss the best
technical and business approach for our mutual success.

Best Regards, Gregg

G.J. Foster
Vice President, Sales
Mail-Filters.com, Inc.
205 De Anza Blvd, Suite 200
San Mateo, CA 94402
TEL: 650-655-7788
FAX: 707-220-7058
www.mail-filters.com
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