How does Bayesian filtering work?
Bayesian filtering is a statistical approach to spam filtering. It allows the system to calculate a spam probability for every email you receive. This probability is calculated on past email you have received as well as past spam and is calculated on a user-by-user basis so only your past email is used to predict whether an incoming message is spam. After all, what someone else might consider legitimate you might consider spam. You may click here for a more complete explanation of Bayesian filtering. • Does Bayesian keep my emails forever for statistical purposes? No. Your email is constantly purged from our system within 1-2 days of you downloading your mail from us. When Bayesian statistics is enabled, the system will maintain a statistical file that counts how many times each word has appeared in your real email and in spam. That is all Bayesian needs to know to work. There is no way to determine the contents of email messages once they have been purged. All the Bayesian system will
