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Working Bayesian Mail Filter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-play-with dept.

zonker writes "A real, working honest to god Bayesian spam filter. I've been waiting for something like this for a while (since I first read Paul Graham's research paper on this very topic a few weeks ago). Well here's POPFile, a small but extremely effective Perl script that runs on just about any system Perl does. After just a little training was I able to get very effective filtering out of it. From what I understand the new email client that comes with OS X Jaguar has a feature similar to this, but I don't know if it is true Bayesian. Hopefully this kind of feature will become more prevalant in client software as I see the Google results for it are growing."

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  1. Those terrorists! by edb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a clear and present threat to our society. Good thing the FBI acted quickly!

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    In theory, practice and theory are the same. In practice, they rarely are.
  2. Honest to whom? by matth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Honest to god? or God? Just which god/God is it honest to? Capital or lowercase G?

  3. CRAP by gnillort · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    www.goatse.cx is a bad site!
    don't go there!

  4. Re:Why hex and binary? by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wow, you're smart. How can I be like you? The early Mayans used a base 20 system; ancient Romans used a base 12 system. The Babylonian system was a positional base 60 system. How many seconds in a minute? How many minutes in an hour? So much for your decimal.

    My conclusion: You're stupid, ignorant and not a geek.

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  5. [OT] Aluminum foil high? by dirtyhippie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Did you know that if you chew on a piece of aluminum foil for couple of minutes, you'll get high?
    No, are you serious? A claim like that needs to be backed up!
    1. Re:[OT] Aluminum foil high? by wheany · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Pardon for stereotyping, but I thought someone with a nick like that would have known. I don't know how or why it works. It's easy to test, though. Just put a piece of aluminum foil in your mouth and chew for a few minutes. Try not to swallow little pieces of aluminum...