On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 12:32 -0600, Damian Menscher wrote:
> Seriously, that's an unfair question. When you're deleting people's > email, how would they find out if there was a false positive? With > spam, it's standard practice to review a junk-mail box for false > positives regularly. Viruses are treated differently; nobody checks > them for false positives. That's why this is such a concern for those > of us who depend on email.
You describe SPAM, not Phishing. And thats the difference you are missing.
I described the standard practice of how most admins handle spam filtering and virus filtering. I did not mention phishing. It will be difficult to have an intelligent discussion if you insist on making random assertions.
Another is your assertion that my "initial assumptions" were incorrect when I suggested that phishing signatures were more likely to create false positives as a result of being more likely to be matching plaintext. Which initial assumptions were incorrect? Can you back your assertion up with anything?
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