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Re: AI spam filter

From conover@rahul.net (John Conover)
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: AI spam filter
Date 2018-05-15 05:00 +0200
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deloptes writes:
> Nicolas George wrote:
> 
> I doubt there is something meaningful beyond bayesian spam filter. It is the
> most efficient way. Neural Network is a method, which would not apply very
> well to spam detection as it is more sophisticated and leads to unjustified
> overhead. This is my estimation only, but I spent few years studying some
> aspects of AI in the domain of text and speech processing and I think I
> would qualify for opinion.
> If I recall correctly bayesian method is based on providing probability by
> observing 1 item in context of 2 other items, which is scientifically
> proven to be most efficient. I recall there were statistics that you gain
> almost nothing if you add another 1 or 2 items to the context.
> At that time neural networks were introduced and we had few exercises, so I
> think I also know how basically NN works. 
>

Its very old, (c. 1994, when "bugless" added scoring to recipes,) but
procmail(1) can be used for Bayesian UCE filtering, (or very close
approximation thereof.) See:

    http://www.johncon.com/john/StochasticUCEDetection/

In addition, it can analyze message's metadata, (i.e., Received:
records, etc.,) and, importantly, handle whitelists, etc.

    John

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John Conover, conover@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/

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AI spam filter Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-05-13 13:10 +0200
  Re: AI spam filter Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> - 2018-05-13 22:20 +0200
    Re: AI spam filter Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2018-05-13 22:30 +0200
      Re: AI spam filter Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-14 11:50 +0200
        Re: AI spam filter Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-05-14 12:30 +0200
          Re: AI spam filter Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-14 14:10 +0200
            Re: AI spam filter Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-05-14 14:20 +0200
              Re: AI spam filter Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-15 00:10 +0200
                Re: AI spam filter deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 00:20 +0200
          Re: AI spam filter rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-05-14 18:20 +0200
            Re: AI spam filter deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 00:20 +0200
  Re: AI spam filter deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-15 00:40 +0200
    Re: AI spam filter conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2018-05-15 05:00 +0200

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