Bayesian filters should not be trained on anything older than about 2 weeks and the test should be done with the mail from the next day.
Training on old stuff makes it worse. SpamProbe's author suggests purging words that have not been referred to in 2 weeks.
My SpamProbe setup handles thousands of messages per day and not ONE spam gets through in weeks and there are NO false positives in more than a year of use on hundreds of thousands of messages.
I estimate SpamProbe to be in excess of 99.5% accurate in eliminating spam and 100% accurate in accepting ham, but it depends 100% on how well you train the thing.
"my new rule is no PC talks to anything else but its samba, proxy or email server"
Good quality routers, eg. HP2524 can be configured for 'port to port security'. So it is actually very easy to configure a system to prevent PCs from blabbing to each other.
If the PCs can only see the servers and the servers are all Linux or Mac boxen, then the system is remarkably robust.
Oh, for Chrissakes! A common user should not be able to pick up unsanitary bugs just by using the tools that he was given in the normal way that they were intended to be used.
If the system allows an ordinary mortal to fsck his computer in the normal line of duty, then the bloody system is broken.
My users do not pick up viruses and shit - they are behind a Linux firewall and e-mail filter and they use Mozilla for browsing and e-mail. They are running anything from Win98 to WinXP and most of those are totally unpatched, out of the box.
Jezus H. Christ. If a cell phone can affect a drip pump, then you better have the bloody drip pump repaired. Secondly, blocking cell phones is a baaaaad idea - think liability when you can't call 911 during a fire, because the friggen building owner painted the place with absorbing paint.
There is a division of work between the defence force and the police force. A State of Emergency changes that division. In most civilized states, the defence force is not allowed to operate inside the country, except during a State of Emergency.
I know a state of emergency was declared on 9/11, but I don't know whether it has been lifted yet.
Gee man, get Netraverse Win4Lin for the wife and dual boot for the kids games.
That way, if the kids pick up viruses, it is on a diffent partition, so you just format the drive and tell them to re-install windows and all their games.
The only prior art considered by the patent office, is prior patent filings and since there are no prior software patents, every piece of crud is approved. Fortunately, patents have a limited lifetime, so the problem will eventually go away, when all the patents expire.
Exactly - that is where the term money laundering comes from. Cocaine dealers used to wash the money to remove cocaine traces - nowadays almost all money has cocaine traces, so they stopped doing that, otherwise a batch of clean money would indicate drug money...
Sure, but saving the user's copies of the e-mail is friggen retarded. It is much easier to store the incoming and outgoing streams of e-mail on the server and use logrotate to create a new file every week, or every day even. As soon logrotate moves a file to backup, it won't change anymore - ever.
With Postfix, use always_bcc to forward all outgoing mail to a user called outlog, then use procmail to save all outgoing mail to a log file.
Likewise, procmail can save all incoming mail - after the crap filters - to an incoming log file called inlog.
Finally, use logrotate to archive the logs periodically.
Then you don't have to worry about the users and they can do with their copies of the mail whatever they damnwell please.
"the user of the mailbox has complete control over the contents" Hell no! You have to archive every message incoming and outgoing right on the server. You can't trust the users to do that. The bigger the organization, the bigger and more frequent the lawsuits.
It is not worth saving pennies on disks/tape if you get hammered with a billion dollar lawsuit that you can't win 'cause all the e-mail was on some secretary's machine that was trashed two years ago...
is what my lawyer wife requires. All incoming and outgoing mail is archived - though I draw the line at saving trash and only saves incoming clean mail after the spam and virus filters. She actually uses the mail archives from time to time. So, logrotate.conf is set to 120 months for e-mail.
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Sometimes, they do get caught - Enron, Tyco, Nortel...
Does anyone have info on horse race analysis and where to get the data?
Left them some money - That is the whole idea behind their business model...
Training on old stuff makes it worse. SpamProbe's author suggests purging words that have not been referred to in 2 weeks.
My SpamProbe setup handles thousands of messages per day and not ONE spam gets through in weeks and there are NO false positives in more than a year of use on hundreds of thousands of messages.
I estimate SpamProbe to be in excess of 99.5% accurate in eliminating spam and 100% accurate in accepting ham, but it depends 100% on how well you train the thing.
Garbage in, garbage out...
Novell is a majour US corporation, also, how about www.apple.com?
Good quality routers, eg. HP2524 can be configured for 'port to port security'. So it is actually very easy to configure a system to prevent PCs from blabbing to each other.
If the PCs can only see the servers and the servers are all Linux or Mac boxen, then the system is remarkably robust.
If the system allows an ordinary mortal to fsck his computer in the normal line of duty, then the bloody system is broken.
My users do not pick up viruses and shit - they are behind a Linux firewall and e-mail filter and they use Mozilla for browsing and e-mail. They are running anything from Win98 to WinXP and most of those are totally unpatched, out of the box.
You can write Santa at this address and ask him yourself:
Mr. Santa Claus
North Pole, NWT, H0H 0H0, Canada
So, there!
Jezus H. Christ. If a cell phone can affect a drip pump, then you better have the bloody drip pump repaired. Secondly, blocking cell phones is a baaaaad idea - think liability when you can't call 911 during a fire, because the friggen building owner painted the place with absorbing paint.
There is a division of work between the defence force and the police force. A State of Emergency changes that division. In most civilized states, the defence force is not allowed to operate inside the country, except during a State of Emergency.
I know a state of emergency was declared on 9/11, but I don't know whether it has been lifted yet.
Is there still an official State of Emergency in the USA?
If yes, then they don't need this law and if not, then they are not allowed to operate inside the country.
Is this the next step towards a Honecker state? Sieg Heil!!!
Uuuhhh - last I checked, Suse belongs to Novell, an American company...
I, for one, welcome our new American overlords - sieg heil!
Hells bells, 'over a million' died in Rwanda massacre.
I guess they are still dying and in a few years it will be 5 million.
So, who's counting? Or do people just keep adding all the numbers from all the different newspapers?
Gee man, get Netraverse Win4Lin for the wife and dual boot for the kids games. That way, if the kids pick up viruses, it is on a diffent partition, so you just format the drive and tell them to re-install windows and all their games.
What is news about this, apart from the misconception that it is the first Gov funded GPL software? Hellooooo... Has anyone ever heard of DARPA?
The only prior art considered by the patent office, is prior patent filings and since there are no prior software patents, every piece of crud is approved. Fortunately, patents have a limited lifetime, so the problem will eventually go away, when all the patents expire.
Nah, the laws here doesn't mention PINs. Even if you give the perp the PIN, you gave it under duress and he still used it fraudulently.
Exactly - that is where the term money laundering comes from. Cocaine dealers used to wash the money to remove cocaine traces - nowadays almost all money has cocaine traces, so they stopped doing that, otherwise a batch of clean money would indicate drug money...
Being a government organization, I would expect them to first print all the e-mail and make 3 photocopies for filing, before deleting it...
Sure, but saving the user's copies of the e-mail is friggen retarded. It is much easier to store the incoming and outgoing streams of e-mail on the server and use logrotate to create a new file every week, or every day even. As soon logrotate moves a file to backup, it won't change anymore - ever.
With Postfix, use always_bcc to forward all outgoing mail to a user called outlog, then use procmail to save all outgoing mail to a log file.
Likewise, procmail can save all incoming mail - after the crap filters - to an incoming log file called inlog.
Finally, use logrotate to archive the logs periodically.
Then you don't have to worry about the users and they can do with their copies of the mail whatever they damnwell please.
"the user of the mailbox has complete control over the contents" Hell no! You have to archive every message incoming and outgoing right on the server. You can't trust the users to do that. The bigger the organization, the bigger and more frequent the lawsuits.
It is not worth saving pennies on disks/tape if you get hammered with a billion dollar lawsuit that you can't win 'cause all the e-mail was on some secretary's machine that was trashed two years ago...
is what my lawyer wife requires. All incoming and outgoing mail is archived - though I draw the line at saving trash and only saves incoming clean mail after the spam and virus filters. She actually uses the mail archives from time to time. So, logrotate.conf is set to 120 months for e-mail.
Good - his government was a major sponsor of world terrorism. May his soul burn in hell...
will find a way to fill it up... ;-)
Well, of course it is the deeds of Linux Hackers - who else would want to run Microsoft software?