Plan for Spam, Version 2

bugbear writes "I just posted a new version of the Plan for Spam Bayesian filtering algorithm. The big change is to mark tokens by context. The new version decreases spams missed by 50%, to 2.5 per 1000, even though spam has gotten harder to filter since the summer. I also talk about how spam will evolve, and what to do about it."

Comments

Problem you say?

[termos]

rm -fr ~/Mail
would do the trick.

Spam and AI

[cybermace5]

And the conflict rages on. The better filters we use, the sneakier the spam artists get. Now we're developing self-modifying algorithms to detect and kill spam, and I'm sure the spammers are developing self-modifying algorithms to craft filter-tricking spam.

How long before the back-and-forth of spam filters and spam crafters becomes self-aware? It's got to happen. Eventually the spam filters will become a skeptic consciousness that *feels* its way through spam and spots the phoneys, and the spam crafters will become a persuasive consciousness that tries to think and write as a close friend or relative.

Re:Spam and AI

[hrieke]

Okay, so we build an AI and then torture the poor thing with insane emails about penis enlargers and the like?
No wonder Skynet rebelled.

Re:Spam and AI

[GreyPoopon]

...and the spam crafters will become a persuasive consciousness that tries to think and write as a close friend or relative.

Hey bro,

I meant to talk to you about this last time you and your girlfriend were visiting, but I wasn't sure how to bring it up. I sort of found out through some less, ahem, discreet members of our family that you're a bit unhappy with the size of your member, if you know what I mean. If this is true, there's this web site I'd like to recommend that will probably be able to help you. It'll cost you a little, but it's worth every penny. I was to embarrassed to say anything about it before, but I gave their offering a try last year and both my wife and I are really happy with the results.

{insert html link here...}

The choice is yours, dude. I just want you to be happy.

Love,
Your bro

What's wrong with spam?

[Amsterdam Vallon]

Without spam, how else would I be able to sit home every day and make $1,000 a week watching TV while playing with my 12 inch penis?

Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide

[molarmass192]

Could Bayesian filtering be applied to filter offtopic posts as well?

Add inches to your penis!

[Chocolate Teapot]

Ooooops! Wrong window. Sorry.

now THIS is a true geek

[Anonymous Coward]

>Based on my corpus, "sex" indicates a .97 probability of the containing email being a spam...

Spoken like a true geek.

Re:How is spam that big of a problem?

[Anonvmous Coward]

"Use another account for regular everyday things, and make sure it sin't something simple like abc123@hotmail.com. I do that and never get spam to my real accounts. This whole spam thing is way overblown."

You remind me of the guy who fixed his leaky roof by using an umbrella in his house.

Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide

[ravenwolff]

I don't think it would be nearly as complicated to check for duplicate posts...

Re:More than 1.1 billion hippies post off topic

[orthogonal]

Ok do the following, then maybe I'll care about your opinion: 1. Solve world hunger so tribe in africa don't need pork to survive ....

Yum, cat farms!

Tastes just like chicken, and keep down the rat population.

Meeeeeeeooowwww!