] "That's the hot thing in spam fighting now -- Bayesian ] filtering. I'll leave the details to smarter people, but ] it is essentially a statistical method in which ] individual tokens (words) are mapped to probabilities. ] For example, a quick look at my spam log of 700 recent ] spams shows that my last name shows up in 4 spams and 254 ] "good" messages, making it a strong (but not absolute) ] indicator of non-spam. Conversely, the term "hcode" shows ] up in 304 spam messages and no legitimate messages, ] making it a very good indicator of spam." I'd like to play with this as a filtering system in the agent... |