The spammers are likely to get past the Bayesian spam filters if they make their spam emails look identical to the ordinary mails everyone gets...

Bayesian Spam Filters work by analyzing and calculating the probability of the contents in the email being spam, and self-building a list of characteristics of both spam and good elements in the message...

Bayesian Spam Filters war on spam through the following methods: email is assessed on the probability of it being either spam or legitimate; it builds its own list of characteristics; keeps on updating its list, learning from its mistakes, thereby increasing its accuracy...

Not a long time ago, most anti-spam products simply used a list of keywords to identify spam A good set of keywords could catch much spam...

Those of us plagued by the onslaught of tens if not hundreds of unwanted emails greeting us as we open up our email accounts have some hope for respite in the form of Bayesian spam filters...