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Mozilla Adding Spam Filters

Posted by michael on from the one-small-step dept.

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!"

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  1. Re:102 Features IE doesn't have by cscx · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Keep in mind that IE is not a mail client...

  2. MSN 8 rules, Mozilla Sucks by weave · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I can get spam filtering as part of upgrading my free MSN account to MSN 8 for only $10/month!
    </troll>

    (Just trying to figure out what the MS trolls will have to say about this one, since every Mozilla article degrades to a flame fest of Microsoft greatness versus the rest of the world)

  3. Re:Won't anyone PLEASE think of the popup advertis by AKnightCowboy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    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?

    What's next? Blocking spyware from installing? Cats sleeping with dogs? Muslims hugging Christians? Republicans dancing with Democrats? This is just madness.