The essential ingredient is to have a "mark as spam" button readily
available so that one can train a classifier (employing whatever method
one chooses). I guess it would help to have a "mark as false positive"
button as well, or perhaps make it a toggle.

T.

On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 15:04, Christopher Ness wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> A glance of /. lead me to http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and
> bayesian filtering.  Quite an in depth paper on spam and the math behind
> *proper* filtering.  An interesting read if you've got 10 minutes.
> 
> In order for this filtering to occur it cannot happen on the server - I
> suppose it could, but would be very taxing on resources - since each
> person needs to taylor (pun intended) the probabilities of tokens
> (words) to the type of spam and valid emails they get both in the
> message and the header.
> 
> Can others see how valuable a leading edge feature like this could be in
> Evo?
> 
> -- 
> Christopher Ness
> 
> 
> 
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