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hake Newbie

Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Last Visit: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: The Industrial North of England
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Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: POPFile - EXCELLENT Bayesian spam filter |
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Are you aware of a superb spam filter called POPFile? I use it. It is free and it is truly excellent. For my email traffic, POPFile has so far achieved an accuracy rate of 98.23% (and still improving).
POPFile is a Bayesian spam filter. It learns as you identify email as spam or legitimate. My accuracy rate built up rapidly to 97% in a very short time. The author of POPFile, John Graham-Cummings, evidently has a deep understanding of the devious ways of spammers. Importantly, POPFile reliably identifies spam while hardly ever producing a false positive. It integrates well with the Outlooks and other well-known email clients.
I learned about POPFile in a book intriguingly titled 'Degunking your Spam, Email and Viruses' by Jeff Duntemann, publisher Paraglyph Press. I consider this the best book on general Internet security I have read and recommend it wholeheartedly to those such as me who are not 'experts'. The title hardly does this book justice.
I bring these to your attention because they are SOOOO good. I am merely the user of one and the purchaser of the other. I do not know the authors of either but consider that they deserve support and encouragement in helping to address the scourges which are the raison d'être of this forum.  |
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carlosoctavio Junior Member

Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Last Visit: 05 Oct 2010 Posts: 29
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Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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I am reading more about that. U forgot to post the url of it , and it is
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It is in more than 6 languages. Nice!
Thank u _________________ spam?
Re: your Rx information is included.
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hake Newbie

Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Last Visit: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: The Industrial North of England
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:40 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I did forget. Sorry about that because I want as many people as possible to know about POPFile. Thanks for posting the POPFile URL for me. |
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hake Newbie

Joined: 04 Jul 2006 Last Visit: 02 Aug 2006 Posts: 4 Location: The Industrial North of England
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Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 7:45 am Post subject: |
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Poems and random words make no difference to the effectiveness of POPFile.
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