The Evolution Spam Filter
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| - | The last big advancement in spam filtering was done by [http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Paul Graham - A Plan for Spam]. He was the first to apply [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_spam_filtering Bayesian Filtering] to blocking email back in 2002. Since then not a lot has happened to make spam filtering significantly better, till now. | + | The last big advancement in spam filtering was done by [http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html Paul Graham - A Plan for Spam]. He was the first to apply [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive_Bayes_spam_filtering Bayesian Filtering] to blocking email back in 2002. Since then not a lot has happened to make spam filtering significantly better, till now. The Evolution Filter is a new plan for spam. |
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| + | == Overview of How it Works == | ||
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| + | Have you ever looked at a list of email messages and get the feeling that you can classify 70% of them just seeing the sender name and the subject line? Have you ever wondered how it is so easy to recognize ham and spam yet computer can't seem to figure out the obvious. When you look at the list - how is it that you can tell? What's going through your mind? | ||
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| + | The way you recognize spam and ham is that when you see a subject line that looks similar to good email and dissimilar to spam then it's good email. And if it looks similar to spam because it says stuff that good email never says, it's spam. | ||
Revision as of 23:44, 26 January 2016
The Evolution Filter
The last big advancement in spam filtering was done by Paul Graham - A Plan for Spam. He was the first to apply Bayesian Filtering to blocking email back in 2002. Since then not a lot has happened to make spam filtering significantly better, till now. The Evolution Filter is a new plan for spam.
Overview of How it Works
Have you ever looked at a list of email messages and get the feeling that you can classify 70% of them just seeing the sender name and the subject line? Have you ever wondered how it is so easy to recognize ham and spam yet computer can't seem to figure out the obvious. When you look at the list - how is it that you can tell? What's going through your mind?
The way you recognize spam and ham is that when you see a subject line that looks similar to good email and dissimilar to spam then it's good email. And if it looks similar to spam because it says stuff that good email never says, it's spam.
