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List:       kde-krn-devel
Subject:    Fwd: Kill spam with machine learning
From:       ralsina () ultra7 ! unl ! edu ! ar
Date:       1997-08-12 14:03:44
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Does it look interesting or what?
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Spam Be Gone! is a program that uses machine learning to predict
the priority of mail messages. Forget about methods that contain 
lists of known spammers or spamming software, as these lists are 
either out of date, phenomenally large, or both. As well as assigning 
spam messages a low priority, it can also assign high priority to 
messages that are likely to be of interest to you.  It is a 
standalone program that can either be integrated with your 
mailreader or called with procmail. It requires three things to 
be of most use:

1) Some way of calling Spam Be Gone! for each new mail message.
Ideally this would be as part of your mailreader, but Spam Be Gone!
can easily be used with procmail.

2) Your mailreader should be able to either filter mail based on the
X-Priority:  message header (to automatically move spam mail to a 
garbage folder) or allow sorting mail based on that header.

3) The mailer should also allow Spam Be Gone! to be called
by the user on demand to allow training (eg. xfmail allows
filters that call external programs, and it is possible to set
up a 'filter' to call a training program). If this is not possible,
Spam Be Gone! can be trained from the command line (not a big 
hassle, because not a great deal of training is required)

For more information, performance stats and downloading, see 

	http://www.internz.com/SpamBeGone/




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