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Two Spam Filters 10 Times As Accurate As Humans

Posted by timothy on from the dev/null-is-getting-fatter dept.

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."

7 of 487 comments (clear)

  1. ob by Billobob · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, the spam filters you!

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    1. Re:ob by homeobocks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      In Slashdot, the moderators filter you!

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  2. fp by Angry+Black+Man · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but can it filter this post FIREST pots assholes! oh yeah baby!!

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  3. Depends... by mstefanus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Stoned" humans have much less accuracy of course

  4. ...yet another soviet russia joke... by Behrooz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, math is bad at you!

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  5. oh yea.... 99%? by segment · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Lets....

    4275742e2e2e2063616e206974206361746368746869732121 21

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  6. CRM114 errors by Jesus+IS+the+Devil · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I just tried installing CRM114 with no success. The documentation is confusing to me. Perhaps someone can help me out.

    #1.
    From the docs it says:

    > In either case your .css files should be in the same directory as
    > your mailfilter will "run" in (yes, this can be changed, but that's
    > an advanced topic).

    What does this mean? What is the path to my mailfilter? I have qmail on my
    system.

    #2.
    I'm being told to edit mailfilterconfig.crm from the docs. However this file is not found
    anywhere in the source folder nor could I find it anywhere on my system
    after installing CRM114. Where do I get this file?

    #3.
    Currently I'm piping my emails to a support ticket script. In the
    '/var/qmail/alias/.qmail-support' file I have this line:

    |/usr/local/php/bin/php /myscript.php

    How would I go about having CRM114 filter the mails and then still have the
    mails piped to the support ticket script?

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