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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. Re:SpamAssassin works for me (even on Exchange) by notque · · Score: 0, Redundant

    A few too many rules, and an email talking about SpamAssassin won't get through.

    Ha Ha.

    Cause it says Ass.

    See, It's funny.

    Cause it's true.

    (We are severely understaffed today and I'm delerious.)

    --
    http://use.perl.org
  2. SpamBayes is great by mnemonic_ · · Score: 0, Redundant

    SpamBayes is great if you're a Cloudmark Spamnet refugee like me, who left Spamnet after it went subscription. You probably have a folder full of hundreds of pieces of spam from Spamnet. SpamBayes can be trained on that folder of spam, so it can start accurately identifying spam without further weeks of training, unlike other Bayesian filtering solutions.

  3. "if you need to explain to non-technophiles" by bcronin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because every technophile here knows exactly how Bayesian filtering works, right?