Article on DNA-like search for spam

Bob Vincent bobvin at pillars.net
Wed Sep 1 17:10:42 CEST 2004


On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 07:38:48PM +0000, Matej Cepl wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3584534.stm 
>  
> Opinions? 

Well, the info is rather sparse, but it looks like they're effectively
doing Bayesian analysis using adjacent letter-combinations, without
regard to natural word separators.

Personally, if I only got 96% accuracy after training 80,000 messages,
I'd be terribly disappointed.

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