>While all of that is true, IF his claims were true (an idea could >magically detect any spam trying to sell you something) would you walk >away from a magic pill that completely and perfectly identified one >particular type of spam and didn't hit any ham?
Yeah, because the next day the spammers would figure out how to circumvent it. >modified bayes approach (with the twist of taking word pairs or triplets >into account) and I doubt it will be a real game changer, although it >may result in some new ways to tune bayes to increase effectiveness. There's nothing new about looking at multiple words. Check out my Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/svictest which estimates probablilites of four-word phrases in a bunch of RSS feeds I follow and uses them to come up with, ah, oracular statements. R's, John _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop