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Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans
Nuclear Elephant writes "The authors of two spam filters, CRM114 and DSPAM, announced recently
that their filters have achieved accuracy rates ten times better than a human is capable of. Based on a study by Bill Yerazunis of CRM114, the average human is only 99.84% accurate. Both filters are reporting to have reached accuracy levels between 99.983% and 99.984% (1 misclassification in 6250 messages) using completely different approaches (CRM114 touts Markovan, while DSPAM implements a Dolby-type noise reduction algorithm called Dobly). If you're looking for a way to rid spam from your inbox, roll on over to one of these authors' websites."
I'm sorry, Dave... That Nigerian guy looks suspicious and I can't let you send him money.
------- "A true friend stabs you in the front." -Eliot
If your email is indistuinguishable from spam by a human, perhaps the problem isn't the receiver. It's the sender.
Forgive me if I don't feel any pity that some moron's email gets filtered to the junk bin because I couldn't discern it from spam.
I have been pwned because my
Just enter a valid email address, and hit submit!
...and only one locked pod bay door per 6250, I like those odds.
Probably used those same people who open viruses as test subjects.
that i'm 100% accurate.
maybe some of those people just dont know where their 'del' key is, or what it does...
None of my mail is spam! I take the penis enlargment and brest enhancement very seriously.
Yeah, "10 times better" should be 998.4%, right?
And that's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give
True story.
it's not that humans are not as accurate, it's that 1 in X times we really do want a mini camera or free porn. It is what seperates us from those cold, heartless machines.... mini cameras and porn....
My Machine outhinks me!!"
I've seen better stories in Highlights for Children
I received an email from my sister-in-law from her work
Yeah, so did I. The subject line was "I want you so bad."
I deleted it. Turned out the message was genuine. I'll never forgive myself...
The coolest voice ever.
can this be used with Spamassasin, or is a stand alone program? Does it need something like Amasis to run?
I'd tell you, but I'm not 100% sure.
Hasn't anybody noticed the obvious Spinal Tap reference?
...you couldn't hear the...
Jeanine: You know, it might have been better if the, uh, album had been mixed right.
David: Well I suppose you could cry about that, of course it's true. I mean it's true.
Jeanine: It wasn't...it was mixed all wrong, wasn't it?
Nigel: It was mixed wrong?
Jeanine: Yeah....
Nigel: Were you there?
Jeanine:
Nigel: How do you know it was mixed wrong?
David: But she's...she's heard the...she's heard the record.
Jeanine: No, but I've heard the album.
Nigel: So you're judgement is that it was mixed wrong.
Jeanine: You couldn't hear the lyrics all over it.
David: You don't agree that you can't hear the
vocals?
Nigel: No, I don't. I do not agree. No.
David: Well I think maybe....
Nigel: It's interesting that she's bringing it up.
David: Well she'd like to hear the vocals.
Nigel: I mean it's like it's me saying, you know, you're using the wrong conditioner for your hair.
David: Don't be stupid.
Jeanine: You don't, you don't do heavy metal in
dobly, you know, I Mean...it's
Nigel: In what??? In what???
Jeanine: In dobly...
Nigel: In dublin!?! What's that?
David: She means Dolby, alright? She means
dolby, you know? You know perfectly well what she means.
This spam filter goes to 11!
DSPAM implements a Dolby-type noise reduction algorithm called Dobly
Despite the musical reference on the DSPAM site, I figured some people still won't get the joke. So here it is:
JEANINE: You don't- you don't do heavy metal in dobly, you know, I mean...it's--
NIGEL: In what??? In what???
JEANINE: In dobly...
NIGEL (GRINS): In doubly!?! What's that?
DAVID: She means Dolby, alright? She means Dolby, you know? You know perfectly well what she means.
--from the movie "Spinal Tap"
Best phrase I've read all week... Oh, yeah, it's only Monday! This one will probably hold me over 'till Friday, though. ;-)
Don't worry, I can forward you the one she sent me. Sounds like the same email.
I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole. - Leo Kessler
I work with some people who use their computer every single day. Have had an email address for years, who still buys what they read in an email. Photoshop for $50...sure! Herbal viagra...why not?
Well, she always has a big smile on her face, maybe there's something to this spam thing.
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it." -Albert Einstein
Lots of people don't know what popups are.
Uh, sure they do. Popups - that's like those porn storms, isn't it? Some people say it only happens with IE and Windows, but I talked to my service provider and they told me 'just pull the power plug out of the wall when that happens'.
Easily fixed.
I bet it allows messages from General Jack D Ripper or any email that contains the secret phrase "purity of essence", "peace on earth" or "precious bodily fluids".
-- http://www.swcp.com/~hudson/
Presumably they must use a superhuman who has 100.00% accuracy.
Karma: It's all a bunch of tree-huggin' hippy crap!
Maybe it's the %0.16 of people who are responding to spam.
In addition, every user will get special discounts on software, mp3s and computer parts with my partners, and two FREE MP3'S every month.
There are also special savings on 100% all-natural and effective male enhancement products. A portion of the rebates will go towards a $100000 fund needed to get 100,000,000 dollars (ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS) from Liberia into an account in Switzerland. If you provide your social security number (SSN) and your checking and savings account number you will get part of the ONE HUNDRED MILLION US DOLLARS. Only the first 100 people will qualify, so hurry up and don't miss this offer!
--I am Sun Tzu of the Borg. Resistance is feudal.
When the Markovan is rockin', don't come a-knockin'...
Ah yes. Misspelling an adjective describing the general procedure, and *then* mistaking that misspelling for the actual *name* of the algorithm. Always nice to see the intelligence of submitters at work!
I have never deleted an email I meant to keep
How could you possibly know? You deleted it!!
Write boring code, not shiny code!
Then megacorp could sue spammer into oblivion.
Or more likely, megacorp fires it's mail administrators for being incompetent and goes on about it's business.
I used dellorders@mydomain.com for an order from Dell, and NEVER used it or even typed it anywhere again, and started get spam about 6 months later, and I mean the nasty stuff, no just innocent stuff from Dell resellers...
You probably ticked off "Eric" the Indian tech. I talked to that guy yesterday. What a jerk.
I talked to my service provider and they told me 'just pull the power plug out of the wall when that happens'.
Ok, now the screen dimmed a little and I heard the hard drive spin down, but the pop ups are still a comin! Oh, and something about "battery level at 98%" or something.
I'm not a journalist, but I play one on slashdot
would love to rtfm, but I want a fairly simple answer to this, how can I do a 30 minute job of integrating this into the mozilla mail client, or does it have to be tied into the server itself? I was wondering if this was a quick, easy fix, or if it is an all weekend type of project.
Most likely it will take at least as long as reading an article. So you might as well not bother.
There goes my bussines idea. I wanted to start a bussines that puts humans in an eastern europe contry to sort corporate e-mail.
Now I have to think again about putting humans to decorticate sunflower seeds, it's cheper than all those machines.
You mean you've never noticed this before? Idiots are some of the happiest people I know.
Please give this man a drink of grain alcohol and rainwater.
How would it know if I consider brunettes non-spam but blondes spam? I did opt-in for one of those email categories, but not the other.
If humans are 99.84% accurate and these filters are ten times as accurate, wouldn't that make these filters 998.4% accurate or am I missing something?