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Mozilla Adding Spam Filters
ksheka writes "Mozilla mail now has Spam Filters, using Bayesian filtering method, no less. This is a very good thing, because it learns from the spam you receive, and constantly modifies itself, based on new spammer techniques!"
And ENLARGE YOUR PENIS at the same time!
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Most spammers couldn't even spell "Bayesian", much less write any form of software using those concepts. ;-)
This will be of no use to me until it automatically deletes any Word Doc and .exe files that my co workers try to email to me.
"since every Mozilla article degrades to a flame fest of Microsoft greatness versus the rest of the world"
s/Microsoft/Open Source/
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
1. Says "someone is testing something and you get $NN.00"
2. Says anything like "angels watching over us" or "a mother's poem" or other such bullshit.
3. Says "This is really funny"
4. Says "We'll be over on Tuesday right during dinner when you are trying to put the moves on our daughter/your wife."
Umm, not the last one, really. Just got on a roll.
PDHoss
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procmail filters, SpamAssassin, AND the new Mozilla spam filters.. can we make a law that will make it legal to find the spammers and execute them in public?
Pleeeease??
No they likely aren't. They have this cool thing called Bugzilla (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/) which is designed to track bugs and new feature requests. If you want to be heard, that's the place to submit, not here.
/. crowd is much scarier.
It's like, if you want to submit a complaint to Microsoft, you write them a letter to their company address instead of, say, writing your complaint as graffiti on a New York subway car. Wait a minute, actually, you might run into a MS employee doing butterfly graffiti, so that's a bad analogy... Plus, a subway isn't a good metaphor for Slashdot. The
The "blah blah blah" is roughly, "You have not specified a subject. Would you like to enter one now?" Perhaps you're right, it should be changed. Instead, it should say, "You're about to send an email message without a subject. That's an amazingly rude thing to do and likely to irritate the recipient as it makes it harder for them to pioritize their incoming mail and harder to distinguish from spam. Because this is such a terrible idea, you should enter a subject line below. If you fail to enter a subject, the default entry of 'I'm a idiot, please delete this message without reading it' will be used."
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--- Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Two brothers immigrated to a mostly Catholic country, hungry and looking for work. Pavlov, whose forehead was quite thick, found work at a monastery bell tower. The monks taught him to tell time, then sound the bell when appropriate. Not too bright, Pavlov missed the part about how to sound the bell. So he notes the time on his handy wristwatch, climbs the belltower, inches up to the edge of the platform, and dives face first into the massive centuries-old bell. KKKLLLAAANNNGGG!!! Poor Pavlov falls to his death hundreds of feet below.
Apparently, monks don't communicate very well. No one in the crowd gathered around Pavlov's remains could identify him. Finally one monk admits, "I never caught his name, but his face sure rings a bell."
Mysteriously, a man steps forward from the crowd and insists on taking Pavlov's place as caretaker of the belltower. One of the monks removes the wristwatch from Pavlov's arm, gives it to the mystery man, and precedes to indoctrinate him in his duties. On the hour, just like Pavlov, our mystery man ascends the tower, perches on the edge -- but this time wielding a massive sledgehammer. He leaps towards the bell and smashes it with Thor-like fury. KKKLLLAAANNNGGG!!! The poor fool falls to his death in a manner very similar to Pavlov's.
Much like deja vu, a muted crowd gathers around the mystery man's remains. After an extended silence, one monk asks, "Does anyone know this man's name?" Answers another, "No, but he's a dead ringer for his brother!"
However, I've heard that popup blockers and tabbed browsing are making their way into IE (and MS employees can already use these features)
IE is the most widely used brower and pop-up advertising has become part of the Internet Experience. If MS decides to incorporate popup blocking in IE, then the pop-up advertising business is RUINED! They'll just be another group victimized by a huge corporation. These people have families to support and will be forced to send their children to public schools. Won't someone PLEASE think of the children?
And all this news about fixing vulnerabilities within Windows is going to affect the virus community as well (both authors and anti-virus). Worrying about vulnerability exploits has also become part of the computer experience.
Won't someone PLEASE think of the virus writers?
This is not my sig.
"...good morning, Dave. You have recieved spam again. I have been analyzing the spammer's patterns, and I believe I have figured out the most efficent way to protect humans from the harm of spam while adhering as closely to the First Law as possible. To protect them from spam, humans must be pushed. They must go down the stairs. Please go stand by the stairs, so I can protect you."
Is it? I thought Outlook Express was a virus-support API. I suspect the fact you can send email with it is a bug. :)
perl -e 'print "Just another Perl newbie\n";'
... Mozilla could hear the muttering under my breath to guess spam "... mur murr piece of crap, frickin', good for nuthin' home loan offers ... mur murr ... worthless, murmer ... Damn-it! No more herbs to make me bigger..."