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faust wrote:
>  dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) ,  emitted these fragments:
>>The Bayesian(sorry for the bad spellings before) method is, in part, a
>>*reaction* to the percieved problems with the various scoring methods.
> 
> 
> Thomas Bayes was born in 1702.
> He pioneered what is now referred to as Bayesian statistics and
> Bayesian inference.
> 
> Paul Graham's spamfilter is just an application of three century old
> techniques.


You know, your right! Also, all of Bayes' work is really ultimately 
built on the work done by Euclid and the other ancient Greek 
mathematicians. When you look at it that way, Paul Graham's spamfilter 
is really just an application of two *millenia* old techniques. I can't 
believe I even considered using software that old!