article in Information Week

[Nick Simicich]

At 02:33 PM 2002-12-09 -0800, Barry Gould wrote:

>http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20021115S0018
>
>mentions Graham and Bayesian filtering.

By someone who is arguable ignorant about filtering.  The claim that the 
RBL blocks 1.4 legit mails for every spam it blocks is just plain 
silly.  This person had bought the line about blacklists being evil.  They 
don't do the whole job, but they are still essential.

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If you doubt that magnet therapy works, I put to you this observation: When 
refrigerators were first invented, in the 1940s, they were rather 
unreliable, but then they became significantly more reliable. The basic 
design of the refrigerator did not change, and we all know that quality was 
important back then, so I doubt that newer refrigerators are made better. 
Refrigerators have become more reliable because of the rise of the 
refrigerator magnet.
Nick Simicich - njs at scifi.squawk.com