«
»

Death to Spam

Today I received about 5 legitimate emails and 15 spam emails. 13 went straight into my spam folder thanks to SpamOracle, a filter that uses Bayesian statistical methods as described by Paul Graham. Paul featured in the article Spambusters in this week’s New Scientist.

I trained SpamOracle with over 700 good emails and around 100 spam. This is slightly less than the recommended number of spams, which would explain the two that got through. Over time, with a larger sample, hopefully these results can be improved.

While SpamOracle is designed to work with Procmail, it is easy to set up for use with KMail, or any *nix mail program that can filter mail through an external program.

Does anyone know of a Bayesian spam filter for Windows?

This entry was posted on Monday, March 10th, 2003 at 7:09 pm and is filed under Open Source. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Death to Spam”

  1. Jonathan H says:
    11/3/2003 at 2:02 pm

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/popfile/

  2. Rob says:
    11/3/2003 at 8:09 pm

    Thanks, Jon. It PopFile looks like it works as a POP3 proxy, which means it should work with any email tool. And it’s multi platform and free too. Perfect.

  3. Jonathan says:
    30/3/2003 at 2:47 pm

    There’s also K9:
    http://keir.net/k9.html