bayesian spam filtering and IRC

[Piotr KUCHARSKI]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 09:23:52AM +0100, Andy Smith wrote:
> I'm familiar with the very basic concept of Bayesian filtering, but
> have little practical experience with it.  I was wondering
> potentially how useful it could be when applied to IRC, i.e. built
> into an IRC server?

Not worth doing. :)

> Assume the IRC server keeps the last few hundred messages sent by
> any given user, and when that user quits from the network normally
> their messages are considered to be examples of good IRC behaviour.

Spammers would then quit before getting killed by ircop.

p.

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