Bogofilter is two

[David Relson]

Greetings,

It's been a tad over two years since Paul Graham wrote the seminal
article introducing the subject of bayesian spam filters.  I learned of
it through Slashdot.  A day or two later, I learned of Eric Raymond's
effort through the posting below.  I downloaded bogofilter-0.2 and two
days later contributed my first patch.  A lot has happened since then,
most notably the successful labeling of "X-Bogosity: Spam" to millions
of messages.

Happy bogofiltering!

David

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Subject: Re: [WLUG] An impressive spam filter
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 13:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
Sender: owner-linux-users at Lugwash.org

On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Brian Stretch wrote:
> This link was sent around at work, and it looks like a very
> interesting approach to spam filtering.
>
> http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

Eric Raymond has done an implementation of this idea:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/

dan pritts
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