Tuesday, October 28, 2003
Bye Bye Spam?
I just upgraded my email client to Eudora 6.0. I paid the $49.95 via credit card, I pasted in my registration number, and it started filtering out spam. Just like that.
It uses a statistical technique called Bayesian filtering.
It has been two days now. So far it has missed about 15 spams, but the Eudora folks say it learns from manual reclassification. It has made no "false alarms", that is, it has not put anything I want to look at in the "Junk" box. But I will scan pretty carefully for a while.
It uses a statistical technique called Bayesian filtering.
It has been two days now. So far it has missed about 15 spams, but the Eudora folks say it learns from manual reclassification. It has made no "false alarms", that is, it has not put anything I want to look at in the "Junk" box. But I will scan pretty carefully for a while.
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