Re: Current "Swen" worm attack - a tip

[Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>]

Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
> I have found that the baysian filtering is very good when you have
> taught it what is spam and what is not. It takes a bit effort in the
> beginning, but now I get about 40-50 spams a day and I have some 5-7
> mailinglists and it filters all for me into correct folders. Sometimes a
> spam ends in the wrong place, but then it is simply (for me) to press a
> key and it is relearnt as spam and moved into that folder.
> 
> I have heard talk that the naive baysian statisical methods used could
> be improved and other statistical methods might do better, however there
> has not been an implementation yet. So if anybody here knows statistics
> it is a nice chance to make a killer spam filter :-)

I've long felt that a neural network should be able to learn to 
distinguish spam from real mail very accurately. The problem is figuring 
out a good way to represent a mail message to the network. I haven't had 
much success on that, but once you have that, training the network is 
simple.

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Jeff Carter
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