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> Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client, If each client has a copy of the filter, then so does the spammer. The spammer can use
by RobertMiller 5y ago
> Surely you could have small bayesian engines running in each client,
If each client has a copy of the filter, then so does the spammer. The spammer can use that to craft spam the filter doesn't catch.
- toyg 5y agoThe lack of filter availability doesn't stop spammers bypassing even Google's uber-filters, so it's not much of an argument really. The arm race is what it is. The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified.
- RobertMiller 5y ago> The point is having a system that can react fast enough to remove the spam from most systems once it is identified. Then you need a system for distributing filter updates, and preventing the spammers from distributing bogus filter updates. Isn't this basically just the same problem as before?
- toyg 5y agoThat's why I said that injecting some modern consensus-finding strategies could be an idea.