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> Hmm, maybe it's because it's a very old address, but my Yahoo spam filtering is terrible. My understanding of Bayesian spam filtering is that it's supposed t
by RyanMcGreal 16y ago
> Hmm, maybe it's because it's a very old address, but my Yahoo spam filtering is terrible.
My understanding of Bayesian spam filtering is that it's supposed to get better over time, not worse.
- eftpotrm 16y agoSupposed to, yes. Until my ISP moved to GMail and hugely upped the spam filtering without telling me (not impressed), I had much the same observation with Thunderbird - its junk filtering was getting less accurate, not more.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoI use Thunderbird and find that spam comes in waves. I'll get a smattering of spam emails in my inbox, flag them as such, and the number tapers toward zero. Then, a month or two later, another smattering will appear, after the spammers realize the filters have adapted and change the composition of their spam emails.