Bart Schaefer wrote:
On 10/17/07, Tom Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just thought if anyone hasn't read it yet, this article might be
interesting to many of you. According to this report SPAM has now
reached being 95% of all email.
This is hyperbole.
What it really means is that 95% of the mail processed by someone's
commercial spam filter has been classified, possibly incorrectly, as
spam. The rates are much lower (though still too high for comfort) if
false positives are accounted for.
See, for example: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.14617
My observation, both at work and at home, is that 95% is pretty close to
true.
