Re: Is predictable spam filtering a vulnerability?

Valdis.Kletnieks_at_vt.edu
Date: 06/24/04

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    To: Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 03:19:14 -0400

    On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 15:52:00 +0200, Luca Berra <bluca@comedia.it> said:

    > I hold that after suitable training of the spam filter (this includes
    > generation of whitelists and such), dropping mail into oblivion is
    > perfectly safe.

    Assume a spam filter that's 99.8% accurate. This is probably a *high*
    estimate - we're talking only 2 errors per every thousand mails...

    Assume several million messages a day (which is *not* a very large load
    by today's standards - we're merely a large university, and even *after*
    subtracting spam and virus mail, we're in that range)...

    Calculate how many mails get dropped into oblivion each day.

    I suspect that you and I have differing definitions of "*perfectly* safe".....

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