Yet another spam filter

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Wed May 19 14:18:48 CEST 2004


On Wed, 19 May 2004 07:29:01 -0400
Tom Allison wrote:

> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.html
> 
> I guess the iMac has a pretty decent filtering application, but it's 
> based on a different model of word recognition.

An interesting article.  It sounds like the training corpus stores each
message as a vector of words and an incoming message is compared to the
vectors to see which it best matches.  If that interpretation is right,
the storage and computational burdens must be high!

I'll have to read some of the /. commentary :-)



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