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Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the get-rid-of-it dept.

pirateninja writes "Dr. Gord Cormack decided to find and prove what the best spam filter is. In his study he looked at the major spam filters (DSPAM, SpamAssassin, etc.) along with those submitted by various academics. The results are quite surprising, with a previously unheard-of spam filter, which uses ideas from various compression algorithms, performing the best overall. He recently presented the results and methodology used in a presentation titled 'Spam Filters, Do they Work? and Can you prove it?'" Note that this is a video of his presentation.

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  1. Re:Why not just douse the server in gas... by Tsiangkun · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm getting 8kb/s downloads from the site, it's just like the good old days !

    I'll post more next week after I watch the video.

  2. Fantastic Spam Filters Which Work Best Proving! by _vSyncBomb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey Slashdot, what's up, man! Dude, I read your thing and like totally agree about Best Work Proving Spam Site Work! Dude, that's awesome!

    Bro, in the same vein, I was totally checking out this dope ass site which you might wanna check out too man. Guys like us that dig Spam Which Proving and Best work Filters will be all over this before long...

    OK, man take care until I see you this Friday at the dinner thing, Slashdot!

    Cheers,
    John

  3. Re:In my experience... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Funny
    I've always had a very high success rate with these.

    I haven't tested this one myself, Barrett Filter but I understand it is 100% effective at reducing spam from known sources. False positives may be a problem, however.

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  4. Harder! by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    I uuencoded the video file, translated it into Sumerian cuneiform, and pressed it into a billion little clay tablets. They are cooking in my oven right now. Now, the Internet is NOT some kind of truck you can just dump stuff onto, so if you want to get the data you're going to have to come to my house.

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    1. Re:Harder! by rts008 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I can't come to your house, you insensitive clod!, teh tubes are clogged with clay tablets!

      I won't be able to download my internet until Friday now!

      Turn that crap down, and get off of my lawn! Damn kids!

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  5. Re: Very Interesting And Generally Really Amusing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey _vSyncBomb,

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  6. Re:RTFA? by emag · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We are sorry that these talks are not available as plain HTML, PDF, or text, however under present IST policy we are not allowed to provide plain HTML, PDF, or text."

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  7. Ask Slashdot ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Slashdot,
    At the university where I work, they have recently adopted a pesky policy banning the use of bitTorrent.
    What can I do to fix this ?
    Yours faithfully,
    Dr. Gord Cormack