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Why is it that Firefox's Adaptive Junkmail Filters search only the
headers of emails? Several times a day I get an email with blank subject and sender with the following exact content ---------------- we email advertise your charity web site to 7,500,000 people. free. http://www.emailmarketingassociates.com ------------- I've been getting them for the last 6 months. I've also been getting about 10 copies a day of this drug advertisement that shows the blond 'doctor' in a white labcoat with the ponytail coming down one shoulder, with a clipboard on her hand. It would seem that a useful system would begin to associate these identical images and identical content blocks when I mark them as junk. Yes, it could create a lot of false positives, but a weight could be given that if I delete this email with different header info but an identical body content 3000 times, then it's a pretty fair shot that it's the same junk. I've also been getting these images of obfuscated text on a textured background. It would seem that those would be very easy to single out using intelligent filtering w/o even having to resort to true visual image analysis. They all conform to a certain 'format' if you will. So.. What's the deal... why are Firefox's junk mail filters so limited and poor? Even to include these as non-default options would be a boon to those who actually make the effort to train the filter. -- Christian M. Cepel - Thistledowne Productions - http://thistledowne.org Computer Support Specialist, Sr. - University of Missouri - Columbia College of Education - School of Info Science & Learning Technologies VRCbd, KidTools & StrategyTools Support Systems Projects, and Truman, Library Whistlestop Project - Web Design & Programming - 573.999.2370 |
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