Fighting Spam with DNA Sequencing Algorithms

Christopher Cashell writes "According to this article from NewScientist, IBM's Anti-Spam Filtering Research Project has started testing a new spam filtering algorithm, an algorithm originally designed for DNA sequence analysis. The algorithm has been named Chung-Kwei (after a feng-shui talisman that protects the home against evil spirits). Justin Mason, of SpamAssassin, is quoted as saying that it looks promising. A paper is available on the algorithm, too (PDF)."

Comments

....feng-shui... and WAKE up ppl.

[danalien]

OT, anyone half decent knows 'feng-shui' is a fake thing /* like astrology, tarot-card reading, ... */. ... it`s a belif-system, and as long as you believe in it your mind will make it real for you ... no *real* scientific studies back them up *AFAIK*.

and btw, WAKE up ppl. 'Filtering' won't make SPAM *ever* go away. As long as you keep on filtering, I guess, it'll act as a cure/remedy that 'relieves pain', but it isn't a cure/remedy that'll kill 'cancer' for good.

And from a different sidenote, 'Filtering' cost us the consumers more money in the long run, as it's we who pay for the SPAM! weather we look at it, or we keep filtering it away (shouldn't such activities be HIGHLY illegal? in any justice system? ...). Becase it's we who pay for the Broadband the ISPs deliver to us, and they have to charge us according to how much it cost's them to sustain it (+some profitable margin). SPAM eat's like *what was it* 60-80% of the total broadband (world wide) now?! And yes sir'y, You and I are the ones paying for it, if all we do is keep on 'filtering' it...

... I guess, the recursive point I wanted to make is, as long as you believe in this new 'Chung-Kwei'-filtering will STOP SPAM your mind will make it real for you ...