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This page is very negative and it often states Thunderbird's junk filtering is weak. This is unfortunate. Afaik, it just comes with no training data (hence the phrase "it has default spam detection" is incorrect and should be changed), and it has its benefits and its disadvantages compared to having some training data included. The disadvantage is that you need to teach it before it becomes useful. I think that one of advantages is '''few false positives''' (just a general judgement based on a rough idea how bayesian filtering works), had anyone actually had any problems with false positive, that the article warns about?
Totally rewrote the article today to make it more straightforwardly "how to". Below is some commentary that I excised from the previous edit because, well, this kind of judgmental commentary belongs in Talk instead of the article. [[User:Wintogreen|Wintogreen]] 11:53, 26 Mar 2005 (PST)
 
:Most users, particularly those who are familiar with peer-to-peer spam fighting software (like Cloudmark's Safetybar for Outlook) will require patience with Thunderbird's bayesian filtering. Bayesian filtering alone is unlikely to be as good as P2P approaches. To date Thunderbird does not have an antispam application sufficiently accurate enough to "turn it on and forget about spam."
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Totally rewrote the article today to make it more straightforwardly "how to". Below is some commentary that I excised from the previous edit because, well, this kind of judgmental commentary belongs in Talk instead of the article. Wintogreen 11:53, 26 Mar 2005 (PST)

Most users, particularly those who are familiar with peer-to-peer spam fighting software (like Cloudmark's Safetybar for Outlook) will require patience with Thunderbird's bayesian filtering. Bayesian filtering alone is unlikely to be as good as P2P approaches. To date Thunderbird does not have an antispam application sufficiently accurate enough to "turn it on and forget about spam."