Funnily enough, it was the topic of spam and building a better spam filter that first introduced me to pg's essays (and thence, to HN). It doesn't look like hi

Funnily enough, it was the topic of spam and building a better spam filter that first introduced me to pg's essays (and thence, to HN). It doesn't look like his Spam page has been updated in a long time (http://paulgraham.com/antispam.html http://paulgraham.com/antispam.html), which reflects for me the quality of spam filters now compared to 2002-2005 when most of those essays were written. Incidentally, they're a great way to learn about Bayesian Filtering as well !