Simon Byrnand writes: >Just got a sales pitch today by phone followed up by email from these guys: > >http://www.death2spam.net.nz/ > >Anybody else heard of them ? Their system claims to be based on Bayesian >filtering and claims to be a lot more effective than 6 other spam filtering >programs (including SpamAssassin) according to a pretty little bar graph. > >I have some serious doubts about some of their claims though, as that >particular graph was showing "Out of the Box effectiveness" and we all know >that a pure Bayesian filter has no out of the box effectiveness until its >been trained ;-)
Which is what it looks like, BTW. Judging by the techie details and credits, I'd say it's a Spambayes-style Robinson classifier -- just like SpamAssassin's learner. (Except SpamAssassin has a few tweaks SB doesn't yet include ;) Richard Jowsey has cropped up on that list too: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/spambayes/2003-April/004301.html But I couldn't find that bar graph... BTW, SB have a great page about the Robinson and chi-squared techniques: http://spambayes.sourceforge.net/background.html Well worth a read if you're curious. --j. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
