Thanks for the encouragement Ted. Unfortunately I know way too much
about mathematics and I have a deep understanding of probability
spectrums. There's a curve and I'm going to be somewhere on it. If I'm
lucky I might be here for some time. But my life is a casino right now.
And yes - there is also a probability spectrum for any of us getting hit
by a bus tomorrow as well. SpamAssassin is based on statistical
probabilities.
I have to have a dual track strategy. One one hand I need to do what I
can to move the curve into the future. But at the same time I need to
accomplish thing that are important within a limited time slot as well.
Spam filtering isn't just another job to me. I actually have a passion
for it. On a philosophical basis I look at the internet as the new
nervous system for humanity and is now core to who we are as a species.
And email is a very key technology in that nervous system.
In that context spam is like poison where predators suck some of the
life out of humanity, and my real life has always been about the
progress of the human race.
I am somewhat of a spam fighting savant. I actually run very little of
my email through SpamAssassin, truth be told. Over the years I've thrown
some ideas into the mix and sometimes they have been adopted to make SA
better. Sometimes I just get shouted down by trolls and the ideas go no
where.
At this point however there's a deadline and I have ideas that could be
implemented in SA very very easily. In fact it was through SA that I
discovered Redis, and SA already talks to redis.
Although my innovation is excellent as a programmer I'm mediocre. Never
worked as a team. Easily frustrated. Probably somewhat autistic and
somewhat arrogant. So mostly living in my own world doing my own
development. I have my little online empire. I work from home. I make a
great living. And I really like (most of) my customers and enjoy doing
tech support. And it's allowed me a lot of free time to do things that
I'm really interested in.
But my ideas are now my immortality, so I'm now releasing this to the
world. And mostly this simple AI method that SA could easily implement.
This new spam filtering trick is not only extremely effective, it's
extremely simple. I had it working in 2 days. The developers here could
probably implement it in 1 day. (At least the core functionality) And
with a team of better programmers probably do a better job and get a
even better result than I get. In fact you don't need or even want my
sloppy code (not in Perl). All you need is to read the description of
how it works and once you get it - coding it is trivial.
So - this is an opportunity to milk the mind of the dying spam savant.
It works, it's easy, and I'm just handing it to you all. There is no
reason I would be making this up. All you all need to do is accept this
gift.
On 08/16/16 01:03, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
Hi Marc,
Back in 1994 I was diagnosed with testicular cancer, it was
essentially "stage 4" as it had metastasized throughout my body.
But, it responded to chemo and here I am today. In fact ironically
my original oncologist died a few years ago - on a fishing trip he had
an accident and drowned.
The Universe has an interesting sense of humor and likes to throw
curve balls. Take what you have been told about your "probability
spectrum" and toss it in the trash - hakuna matata. You could
accidentally step in front of a bus tomorrow and be dead. You could
live another 20 years. Statistics on people only have meaning on
large groups of people - they are irrelevant when it comes to the
individual.
I've met a number of people who had serious cancers. And I learned
one thing from that. The people who survived - every one of them,
fighters. And everyone fights differently. Some get on the food
bandwagon and try overdosing on green tea and every alleged
anti-cancer food out there. Others jump into yoga, and I knew one guy
who went out and binged watched Monty Python to spend as much time
laughing as possible. Me, I fought on a more mental approach. I
dropped everything in my life that I was not completely satisfied with
- I turned my back on my job, my apartment, etc. - every burden or
responsibility that I had which I didn't like and didn't really want -
and dove into the treatment, and I never let myself believe I was in
any danger of dying.
Of course, not all who fight, survive. But I will say with absolute
conviction that everyone I ever met who had a serious cancer and had
that "attitude of acceptance", later died. You are a fighter or you
wouldn't even be here. Now, fight to win.
Ted
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