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Sorting the Spam from the Ham

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-the-beginners dept.

MrClever writes "The Sydney Morning Herald (Aust) is running an article about the merits of Bayesian filtering and a good plain-english description of how it works. Might be handy if you need to explain it to non-technophiles. The main thing that may be useful is a Bayesian spam filter written to drop straight into Outlook 2k/XP available here and written in Python by Mark Hammond." Math buffs might enjoy reading these pages or browsing this writeup and its many links.

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  1. This is bad news!!! by aborchers · · Score: 4, Funny

    The main thing that may be useful is a Bayesian spam filter written to drop straight into Outlook 2k/XP


    I've now lost one of my primary arguments for switching my colleagues to Mozilla!

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  2. News for Pervs, Stuff that Matters. by notque · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would you use the phone if you had to listen to a 10-second brothel advertisement every time you made a call?

    Yes.

    Definately Yes.

    Is that a feature I can have added?

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  3. Re:Better Bayesian Filtering by GoatEnigma · · Score: 4, Funny
    Email is not just text; it has structure.

    You've obviously never received email from an AOL user!