Voting is not Bayesian filtering. Not everything is Bayesian filtering in this world. And yes, I read that article. Self-learning algorithms suck, because they

Voting 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.