Interesting idea for fighting SPAM...

Bob Bell bobbell at zk3.dec.com
Tue Aug 20 16:22:39 EDT 2002


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 03:32:17PM -0400, Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com> wrote:
> http://www.habeas.com/faq/index.htm

(We'll see if this post gets through; I'm 1 for 3 so far)

Apparently a lot of people saw the Slashdot story and started coding
their own Bayesian spam filters.  There have been at least two such
filters on the mutt developer's mailing list so far, including one
written by ESR.

-- 
Bob Bell <bobbell at zk3.dec.com>
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