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And to my understanding, the best method so far is the statistical (voting-based) method that many large email servers run. That's Bayesian filtering. http://
by brett 19y ago
And to my understanding, the best method so far is the statistical (voting-based) method that many large email servers run.
That's Bayesian filtering.
http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
As to your last point, I know what I consider spam. That's all that is important to me. That's part of the whole point of Bayesian filtering. Each user can personally teach the filter.
- mojuba 19y agoVoting is not Bayesian filtering. Not everything is Bayesian filtering in this world. And yes, I read that article. Self-learning algorithms suck, because they are not intelligent. Even if you had a human spam filter and you had to teach him/her what's important for you, even that kind of filter would give you false positives from time to time. The whole Bayesian filtering business was doomed to failure for very obvious reasons.