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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.
a beowulf cluster of spam@!
NOT OT TO PARENT, DON'T MOD ME OT!
No, you weren't, I said something about a beowulf cluster of spam.
Who cares what he finds funny?
Who cares if he thinks a PDA is stupid?
We generally think Holland, Michigan is stupid. And I'm Dutch!
That title is so funny...you know, because it rhymes.
You fail so often sometimes I really think you're just not even trying at all. Here's a haiku to celebrate the failures of your life.
a silent stream flows
red with the blood of AC's
life of failure done
Back in the cowboy days, a westbound wagon train as lost and low on food. No other humans had been seen for days... and then they saw an old Jewish Rabbi, sitting beneath a tree. The leader rushed to him and said, "We're lost and running out of food. Is there someplace ahead where we can get food?" "Vell, I tink so, " the old man said, "But I vouldn't go up dat hill, und down de udder side. Somevun tole me you'd run into a big bacon tree." "A bacon tree?" asked the wagon train leader. "Yah, ah bacon tree. Vould I lie? ..... Trust me, I vouldn't go dere.
The leader goes back and tells his people what the Rabbi said. "So why did he say not to go there?" some pioneers asked. "Oh, you know those Jewish people- they don't eat bacon." So the wagon train goes up the hill and down the other side.
Suddenly, Indians are attacking from everywhere and they massacre all except the leader who manages to escape back to the old Jewish man.
The near-dead man starts shouting, "You fool! You sent us to our deaths! We followed your instructions, but there was no bacon tree. Just hundreds of Indians, who killed everyone but me."
The old Jewish man holds up his hand and says, "Oy..... vait a minute." He then gets out an English-Yiddish dictionary, and begins thumbing through.
"Oy Gevalt, I made myself such ah big mishtake! It vuzn't a bacon tree."
"It vuz a ham bush"
Only x posts and slashdotted! Must be running their site on product "A".
...
Imagine a beowolf cluster of item "B", on a "C".
Just wait till the RIAA hears about this! and/or Just wait till the MPAA sees this! and/or Just wait till the **AA hears and/or sees this!
Something SCO would do....Or Sue! Sue! call SCO
BSD is dying, only a few million users left!
Oh and MS knows security like they know open competition.
I used Mozilla once!
1. Action "D"
2. ???
3. Result "E"
MS sucks. or MSFT sucks. or Microsoft sucks. or Micro$oft sucks or Micro$loth sucks.
Linux has a far superior kitch factor.
I'm going to patent patenting. I'm going to patent the wheel, air, fire, water, item "F". Quick hide it from bezos.
I'm going to sue for violating my first post (patent|copyright).
Check my l33t signature!
Accomplishing goal L: Cost "G". Accomplishing goal M: Cost "H", for everything else there is item "I".
Something, something, something, private part [giggle like the school child you are], something, something, something.
something, other, something, Natalie Portman, something
Boochicka wowwow, something, hot grits and person "J", who may or not be Natalie Portman
Some guys widespread anus [goatse.cx]
In Soviet Russia, Item "J" does "K" to YOU!
Apple R0xx0rs!
Apple Sucks!
Kde!
Gnome!
Amigas aren't dead!
Polling:
[options a-g]
h. [unable to participate] you insensitive clod!
i. [cowboy neal poll option]
all your "L" are belong to "M"
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
wtf modded this DOWN? Funny shit is ALWAYS on topic and NEVER a troll!
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
Why do users with IDs under 100,000 or over 700,000 usually have the most worthwhile comments?
thank You!
You and your cum-guzzling attitude have no place in here!!
thank You!!
Please mod as redundant, since this has appeared in older posts.
It's a definite insightful - funny once (ref: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein).
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
Where is your IRREGARDLESS now? C'mon, you know you're itching to type "irregardless"!
Spamming and cramming might be slamming your jamming but perhaps a fat ramming will stimulate your glandings
Handing a canned pea with tan cheese to Ran Bees.
Use the source Luke!
YOU FAIL IT!!!
i swear on my papi's grave that this story gets covered once a week..,....
can we not just talk about something else?
(i guess i could stop coming to this website, or, maybe do some work....hmmm, interesting. i'll think about it).
see this story, rehashed here: old mail story
We're like rats, in some experiment! -- George Costanza
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.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
Homo power!