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Plan for Spam, Version 2

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bayesian-filtering-for-a-quieter-inbox dept.

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."

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  1. Spam and AI by cybermace5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:Spam and AI by hrieke · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    2. Re:Spam and AI by GreyPoopon · · Score: 4, Funny
      ...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
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  2. What's wrong with spam? by Amsterdam+Vallon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  3. Re:More than 1.1 billion pigs are killed worldwide by molarmass192 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  4. now THIS is a true geek by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Spoken like a true geek.