Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the comments on the spam detector and thanks for taking a peek at it. http://irresponsiblecybernetics.com/amispamornot.php. From: Howard Lee Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I imagine that I'm not the only person who finds this interesting. >Would you consider making this an Open Source project? I am considering making it into an Open Source project. Ironically this project didn't start as a spam detector. That was a suggestion of a friend who had seen the animal game demo that I had done. I just want to get the project to a stable enough state (and commented better) before I release it to the open source community. From: Dale Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Interesting. I ran a couple of pieces of mail through and it seemed to do >well...the item that it made a mistake on was a (solicited) newsletter >that was tagged as spam. My limited experience with filters suggests >that's a common problem - it's easy enough to identify a pitch, but how >do you decide if it's something you asked for or not? > >In any event, how do you see something like this working? Is it a tool >for ISPs? Do individual users plug it into their email? Both? > >Dale One way it could decide if a piece of mail is something that you asked for or not is to train it on a per user basis. Now, I have not done long term analysis on this because it is so new. I will be doing some scalability testing, as I am using this to filter spam out of my mail into a spamtrap folder. I am forwarding my mail to a perl script using the Mail::Audit module which sorts it into the folder it thinks it belongs. I was wondering though, your thoughts on the automation of both spam and spam filters. To me it raises the philosophical question of what it means for machines to read mail and thus understand it to a limited degree that they can categorize and classify it. It also begs the question of how much decision making we are going to allow machines to make. This system isn't going to need that much handholding and I've given it the discretion of where to place my mail in my directory. Will I feel confident at letting it decide to report a piece of mail as spam? Will ISPs employ such devices and simply not route things that have been detected as spam? I think these things have more real effect and tooth than any legislation out there. I am not sure if this is good or bad though. -Coyo -------------------------------------------------------------- Irresponsible Cybernetics Inc. we bring ~things~ to life. teach the memory system new things - http://irresponsiblecybernetics.com/animalgame.php -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
