From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5c972d04da95d51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-16 11:43:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:43:25 -0500 Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 13:43:32 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: If anybody wants to make something in Ada but do not know what References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.111 X-Trace: sv3-EOh6jDLZbw2ETkmOTRVxqFnmfLWRXR+Yl4kNqqzeS/YaDArxmELfNo8GapyQr6MT76QdU9KZ8//xkK8!gMV6R80Sh4qCwYF6wQiy5SvUdZIXL1EdvXPXJIkIraAluXZ8tSuGlfadxq/WJNtywnVda6aqY7AU!b5SsCQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36199 Date: 2003-04-16T13:43:32-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > Then perhaps a Bayesian Spam filter could be a nice challenge. Or if > somebody are heading a university student project/diploma work it could > a suitable project? I've thought about doing a variation of this, but I just don't have the time. I really believe that if enough people did this, spam would cease to be profitable and die out. Unfortunately, there will never be enough people doing it, for the same reasons as why most of us are going to be informed once a year for the rest of our lives that there's going to be a five-cent tax on every e-mail (maybe that would be a good thing--it's cheaper than a stamp and it would stop spam). A bayesian filter would keep its user from seeing the spam. There are already numerous decent implementations of the idea, so one in Ada would not go very far, _unless_ it offered a significant new feature. In my opinion, this new feature would be for the statistical database to be kept ON THE SERVER. Once your database got built up enough to reject spams, you not only would not see it, you would save the bandwidth of pulling it down to your computer. Bayesian filters must scan the whole message, thus current implementations require you to download the whole message. If an e-mail client or plugin was capable of sending "Message ID #$%^#$%^# was spam" and the server could update the database accordingly, that would be really cool. If someone has the time to tackle a project like this, I'd be happy to share some of the details I've already thought of. Unfortunately, it would require the cooperation of the ISP to run it.