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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.

10 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Spamming Lot. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Dr. Gord Cormack, decided to find and prove what the best spam filter is."

    Will it keep me from getting first post?

  2. fuck power went out! by coffeeisclassy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    OMG the power went out on campus slashdot you pawn n00bs :-)

    1. Re:fuck power went out! by TheShadowHawk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Oh my god.... that was funny... good thing I didn't have a mouthful of tea then... :)

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  3. Spam Ass Asian? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SpamAssasian

    WTF?

  4. I have one word: by get+quad · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Postini.

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    "To err is human, to mod Funny divine."
  5. Re:from china with love by nihaopaul · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

    85% [=========> ] 424,250,976 30.16K/s ETA 18:54

    almost have it!

  6. Spam Ass Asian by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Excuse me, I have to go to the bathroom.

  7. Wait - there's more! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    From this comment:

    Some Poster: Last I checked, Karl Marx never killed anybody

    JCR: No, he left that to his followers, kind of like L. Ron Hubbard.


    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Hilarious - you've just got no idea do you? hahahahahaahahahahahahahaha! Thanks for the laugh anyway. It's easy to forget that there's people as stupid as you in this world now I don't read fark anymore.
  8. Re:In my experience... by Jartan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

  9. Re:Argh! Gratuitous Video! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Wow!

    I just had a dump today.

    Do you wanna see my poop?