I agree about the problems with messages with only images in them, but munging "the spammy words with spaces, numbers, and misspellings" is more of an argument against traditional keyword based filters. Baysian filters as I understand them should become more effective in this case after the first spam.
For instance if I write a spam to you and use the word pen1s instead of penis that can easily be marked as spam from the next spammer that uses that, however you may get email that has the word penis. Thus the next time the spammer uses pen1s it is simple for the Baysian filter to catch this.
I've noticed that the spam that has been getting through my Mozilla filter are the ones with innocuous sounding subjects and an embedded image. Could this be the future of spam? Does anyone know if any spam filters pick up on this patern or lack of pattern (after all there are no words in the body usually.)
At least everything that they did seemed to be amply documented.
I found that to be refresing especially in light of all the recent benchmark tests that have not been so forthright with all their methods and procedures.
I didn't see any mention of yearly subscription fees ala Lindows. This may do well in the low cost desktop arena if they have a 'Click N Buy' analogue without the fees. This could be Mom's new PC =)
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I agree about the problems with messages with only images in them, but munging "the spammy words with spaces, numbers, and misspellings" is more of an argument against traditional keyword based filters. Baysian filters as I understand them should become more effective in this case after the first spam.
For instance if I write a spam to you and use the word pen1s instead of penis that can easily be marked as spam from the next spammer that uses that, however you may get email that has the word penis. Thus the next time the spammer uses pen1s it is simple for the Baysian filter to catch this.
I've noticed that the spam that has been getting through my Mozilla filter are the ones with innocuous sounding subjects and an embedded image.
Could this be the future of spam?
Does anyone know if any spam filters pick up on this patern or lack of pattern (after all there are no words in the body usually.)
At least everything that they did seemed to be amply documented.
I found that to be refresing especially in light of all the recent benchmark tests that have not been so forthright with all their methods and procedures.
I didn't see any mention of yearly subscription fees ala Lindows. This may do well in the low cost desktop arena if they have a 'Click N Buy' analogue without the fees.
This could be Mom's new PC =)
You may want to try Mandrake 9.1. It now does NTFS resizing (the default partition type for Windows XP)
I have a linux newbie friend that installed this distro alongside an existing XP and he found it to be extremly easy to install.