[Milsurplus] My spam filter's better than your spam filter...

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

Filter, schmilter

There's one 'system' out there that mostly works.  Not black
lists, white lists, lists to port, etc.  It's the Bayes
statistic system developed by one Paul Graham who published a 
famous paper called "a plan for spam."  It was after AOL had 
paid him for a one year exclusive.

If you're using a system that constantly trains  & retrains itself, 
you're probably a XXXXX running at least some variant.

No matter if it's called Horse-Fang-100, Zonko-Punjab-XNB, or something.

The 'power user' community have picked the term Baysian Filtering
even though it's not filtering but a systems approach - same types
flourish the term but are flummoxed if asked to demo an algorithm
to compute an average.

First place Graham s/w appeared was open source (linux, unix) & was/is
named bogofilter.

Been running it personally for 2 yrs.  The ISP-lette at our company 
picked up & does it. too.  Neat & effective & keeps up with stunts 
meant to paralyze same (my name for these, "bogo torpedo," has stuck).

If you get a spam that's nothing but a morass of common words, you've
seen "bogo torpedo."

Read up at

      www.paulgraham.com/spam.ht

Just the facts, maam

  'rm