[ietf-dkim] Bayesian filters are the pits

J.D. Falk jdfalk at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Aug 24 13:44:22 PDT 2006


On 2006-08-23 20:03, John Levine wrote:

>>I think that it is important to point out that you are not going to
>>get good results from naïve learning schemes and make sure that there
>>is sufficient coverage there to defend against the objection.
> 
> It seems to me the important point is that bad guys can and will
> implement any technical spec that anyone can think up.
> 
> This means that it is foolish to assume that the mere presence of a
> DKIM signature or any other technical detail means anything good about
> a message.  This is true whether it is people or software making the
> assumption.

If anyone can turn this into a short (but still accurate) slogan, I'll 
arrange for a small run of t-shirts.

-- 
J.D. Falk, Anti-Spam Product Manager
Yahoo! Communications Platform Team


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