spam conference report

[Matthias Andree]

Gyepi SAM <gyepi at praxis-sw.com> writes:

> Notes from the spam conference held at MIT, Boston, MA, USA on January
> 17th.
>
> There are webcasts online at www.spamconference.org so this will be
> limited
> to my impressions and how it relates to bogofilter.

Ho-hum, while they cover the complete conference, it's long. Is there
any summary of the respective presentations besides the abstracts?

> 4. Don't exclude [^[:alnum]] characters. This has the interesting result
> that 'spam!!" and "spam!!!" are different words. A suggestion for
> unknown words is to look for the closest match so "spam!!!!" will return
> the count for "spam!!!"

Hum. I wonder how one'd do a proximity match FAST, say, no worse than
O(n log n) what we have now.

-- 
Matthias Andree