Working Bayesian Mail Filter

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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Re:Why hex and binary?

[Anonymous DWord]

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.