Working Bayesian Mail Filter

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday November 3, 2002 @06:05AM 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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*BUT* it's a Perl script... by pilot1 · 2002-11-03 06:17 · Score: 2, Redundant

Sure it's great that someone made one, but its a perl script. We might be able to use perl , but most of the "normal" people have never even heard of perl, let alone them having knowledge of running perl scripts. It would be great if someone ported this, to an .exe file or something that everyone could run. It'll probably happen eventually.