Monday, August 11, 2003

SpamBayes, which is based on math suggested by me as an improvement to the approach in Paul Graham's seminal "A Plan For Spam" article, and supplemented with a great observation from Tim Peters that the "Unsure" range of spam/ham classification is very useful, won this comparative testing against PopFile. The test was slashdotted today. John Graham-Cumming, who is responsible for PopFile, Tim Peters and I are all members of ActiveState's Anti-Spam Task Force. I must admit I'm competitive enough to enjoy that sort of thing. ;) (Note, John is doing a fantastic job at documenting specific tricks used by spammers.) 6:02:19 PM    comment

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