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

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.

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?