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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."
I have five fingers on each hand, so I prefer decimal.
If I had four fingers on each hand, I'd prefer octal.
If I had one finger on each hand, I'd prefer binary, but I think I could manage without using my fingers
If we had eight fingers on each hand, we'd prefer hex, but then it wouldn't be hex, because we'd have used a different numerical system, that'd be base 16, but with 16 numbers instead of 10 numbers and 6 characters.
My conclusion: You're stupid, ignorant and not a geek.