August 16, 2002

Talking about spam

A Plan for Spam
Interesting article on why Bayesian filtering is the way to go for filtering spam. I’m a statistics idiot, so I can’t say either way. His argument of the SpamAssassin score smells of a straw man. If you’re interested in programming – and some LISP-bigotry :-) – the rest of Graham’s site is worth some time if you’ve never seen it.

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