From: Clifton Royston (no email)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 15:58:13 EDT
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 12:37:52PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> >>>>> "GAW" == Greg A Woods <> writes:
>
> >> You can do this today with spamassassin -- just forget the scores
> >> published by the project and tune it with scores derived from your
> >> personal sampling of mail. It will much better match your definition
> >> of spam that way.
>
> GAW> You can do that _today_ with a filter based on Bayes' Theorem. Indeed
> GAW> that's how Graham's idea is expected to work. Didn't you read his
> GAW> paper? You just feed it all your good mail and then feed it all the
> GAW> spam you receive. If integrated into something like your IMAP server it
> GAW> could classify your e-mail when it's first delivered to your inbox and
>
> I did read his paper. It presented no actual software... A few
> others have, but they are just proof of concepts as far as I see.
> ESR's bogofilter could be integrated into some mail software, but is
> not yet.
Actually, Jason Rennie's ifile has been implemented and in use since
1996. At first glance, it sits on the end-user delivery side, though.
In other notes, Microsoft has been issued a patent on statistical
filtering of email on an application submitted in 1998, though I don't
have the URL handy.
ifile seems to be prior art for everything in their claims and to
potentially invalidate the patent, but that would take a lawsuit to
establish.
-- Clifton
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Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect --
"What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy
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