Seven Spam Filters Compared

Goo.cc writes "Those wondering how their spam filtering software performs in comparison to other's may want to read this article on Freshmeat, where Sam Holden performs comparative testing of various popular e-mail filters. The filters tested includes Bayesian Mail Filter, Bogofilter, dbacl, Quick Spam Filter, SpamAssassin, SpamProbe, and SPASTIC."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Moth7]

Maybe the site is too valuable to DoS?

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[hankwang]

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In Netherlands, there is or may was an urban legend that a big tea brand will donate a wheelchair to whoever gathers one million tea bag labels of that brand. Presumably, the tea brand tried informing the world through advertisements in the newspapers, but that turned out to only increase the number people requesting more information.