Regular mail is anything SpamAssassin rates less than 5, I get a few false negatives- no real biggy.
Spam Low is anything SpamAssassin rates less than 8.
Spam High is anything SpamAssassin rates 8 or more.
My ratio of Spam High to Spam Low is 30:1. I easily scan my Spam Low in seconds. I glance at my Spam High only for entertainment before trashing it.
The false positives that end up in Spam Low are usally mailing lists that I have not white listed. When I spot one, I adjust my white list.
I am eagerly awaiting SpamAssassin 2.5 which has Bayes filtering to eliminate the very few false positives I get. As I understand it, this filtering in combination with SpamAssassin means I need to provide no feedback to the filter. Yet, spammers will have a different Bayes filter, therefore they will be unable to adapt their spam to go through my filter.
This can replace almost all wire based phones and do a lot more.
The concept is simple, you can use any peer to peer radio communications system. But the stuff from www.time-domain.com looks the best.
With the time-domain stuff, anything can have private communications and location detection within centimeters. The key is to use a cooperative protocol that allows units to relay traffic for units not in range of each other. Actually, you have low power units, which only talk to other units, powered units which perform relay functions a well, and high power units which can compute routing decisions.
In a metropolitain area, like the San Francisco Bay Area, high speed IP access and phone service is free. Its not hard to imagine most homes having 1 to 5 devices that would do relaying and are idle most of the time, of course, this would take a few years for adoption. To get non-local access you gateway via your own home DSL, Cable, or other Internet connection. Alternatively, you buy connectivity out of the metropolitain area network from a communications provider, such as MCI, Sprint, etc...
Essentially, cell phone calling becomes free, you only pay for the phone, the power, and long-distance Internet access.
Since you can determine geographically where transmitters are, you can also track all property containing these devices. If a TV, with a small battery, is on its way from the factory to you and it leaves its expected travel route (at least in areas where there is coverage) an alarm could trigger. More importantly, if your child left school during school hours, or left the route to or from home you could be informed.
There are a couple of open source radio relay protocols that may sound similar, but I can never tell if they get the whole picture-- even after I send this description to them they don't reply. Go figure...
Arthur Britto
ahbritto@iat.com
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I have lots of ideas, like this one, that make business sense yet never get fully developed. Other ideas include: a micro/macro transactions system, trusted Linux security solutions, performace based Internet advertising, anonymous file storage/sharing, etc...
When I approached time-domain with the concept, they reply was essentially: go away we don't want to talk to anyone now, we are busy patenting things.
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Regular mail is anything SpamAssassin rates less than 5, I get a few false negatives- no real biggy.
Spam Low is anything SpamAssassin rates less than 8.
Spam High is anything SpamAssassin rates 8 or more.
My ratio of Spam High to Spam Low is 30:1. I easily scan my Spam Low in seconds. I glance at my Spam High only for entertainment before trashing it.
The false positives that end up in Spam Low are usally mailing lists that I have not white listed. When I spot one, I adjust my white list.
I am eagerly awaiting SpamAssassin 2.5 which has Bayes filtering to eliminate the very few false positives I get. As I understand it, this filtering in combination with SpamAssassin means I need to provide no feedback to the filter. Yet, spammers will have a different Bayes filter, therefore they will be unable to adapt their spam to go through my filter.
Net result: SpamAssassin Rocks!
The concept is simple, you can use any peer to peer radio communications system. But the stuff from www.time-domain.com looks the best.
With the time-domain stuff, anything can have private communications and location detection within centimeters. The key is to use a cooperative protocol that allows units to relay traffic for units not in range of each other. Actually, you have low power units, which only talk to other units, powered units which perform relay functions a well, and high power units which can compute routing decisions.
In a metropolitain area, like the San Francisco Bay Area, high speed IP access and phone service is free. Its not hard to imagine most homes having 1 to 5 devices that would do relaying and are idle most of the time, of course, this would take a few years for adoption. To get non-local access you gateway via your own home DSL, Cable, or other Internet connection. Alternatively, you buy connectivity out of the metropolitain area network from a communications provider, such as MCI, Sprint, etc...
Essentially, cell phone calling becomes free, you only pay for the phone, the power, and long-distance Internet access.
Since you can determine geographically where transmitters are, you can also track all property containing these devices. If a TV, with a small battery, is on its way from the factory to you and it leaves its expected travel route (at least in areas where there is coverage) an alarm could trigger. More importantly, if your child left school during school hours, or left the route to or from home you could be informed.
There are a couple of open source radio relay protocols that may sound similar, but I can never tell if they get the whole picture-- even after I send this description to them they don't reply. Go figure...
Arthur Britto
ahbritto@iat.com
-
I have lots of ideas, like this one, that make business sense yet never get fully developed. Other ideas include: a micro/macro transactions system, trusted Linux security solutions, performace based Internet advertising, anonymous file storage/sharing, etc...
When I approached time-domain with the concept, they reply was essentially: go away we don't want to talk to anyone now, we are busy patenting things.