Sorting the Spam from the Ham

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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Re:This is bad news!!!

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Okay, so don't switch then. If Outlook meets all your needs, then use Outlook. If there's a more compelling reason to use Mozilla -- be it ideological ... or logical :) -- then use Mozilla.

I used to be in the "they're evil, shun the products" camp. I have since made the switch to the "use it, it has the benefits I want" camp. Some benefits, of course, are non-tangible and will vary from user to user.