Proving Which Spam Filters work Best

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 2, 2006 @04:14PM 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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I have one word: by get+quad · 2006-08-02 17:05 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Postini.

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Re:from china with love by nihaopaul · 2006-08-02 18:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

whooo, ok that slashdot lameless filter error is a `p155` me off

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almost have it!
Re:In my experience... by Jartan · 2006-08-02 22:30 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The best part about this post is that it's modded "Informative".