From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00960; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:11:40 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA00953 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:11:39 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from pauillac.inria.fr (pauillac.inria.fr [128.93.11.35]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g7QDBc922357 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:11:38 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from xleroy@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id PAA00677 for caml-list@inria.fr; Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:11:38 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 15:11:38 +0200 From: Xavier Leroy To: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: [Caml-list] Announcement: SpamOracle Message-ID: <20020826151138.A32572@pauillac.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk [ Spam filtering is rather off-topic for this list, but this tool is written in OCaml, and needs adventurous users of the kind found on this list to be tested... ] Are you tired with spam messages cluttering your e-mail? Are you retentive enough to have meticulously archived all this spam, separately from your regular e-mail, in the hope that someday some program might learn by example how to recognize spam -- something that any human does in a fraction of second? If so, rejoice! The time has come! Introducing the Spam Oracle, a.k.a. "Saint Peter". From the README: SpamOracle is a BiCapitalized tool to help detect and filter away "spam" (unsolicited commercial e-mail). It proceeds by statistical analysis of the words that appear in the e-mail, comparing the frequencies of words with those found in a user-provided corpus of known spam and known legitimate e-mail. The classification algorithm is based on Bayes' formula, and is described in Paul Graham's paper, "A plan for spam", http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html. This program is designed to work in conjunction with procmail. The result of the analysis is output as an additional message header "X-Spam:", followed by "yes", "no" or "unknown", plus additional details. A procmail rule can then test this "X-Spam:" header and deliver the e-mail to the appropriate mailbox. In addition, SpamOracle also also analyses MIME attachments, extracting relevant information such as MIME type, character encoding and attached file name, and summarizing them in an additional "X-Attachments:" header. This allows procmail to easily reject e-mails containing suspicious attachments, e.g. Windows executables which often indicate a virus. All for the incredibly low price of $0.00 ! But hurry -- it won't last long! Grab your copy from http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/software.html#spamoracle This AMAZING product, based on college-level statistical theory less than one century old, will just REVOLUTIONIZE your life! Or your money back! But don't take my words for it! See the testimonials from our happy customers! Xavier L., from Versailles: "What with all these e-mails about V**gra, p*nis enlargement, and hot teen*ge sl*ts, I just couldn't concentrate on writing quality software and research papers. Your product just restored peace in my mailbox and in my mind, too. Now, I can spend whole days watching my procmail log and bursting into hysterical laughter every time another spam bites the dust! Why, it feels so good, I think I'll subscribe to some of these "one-time use" mailing lists JUST FOR FUN!" Enjoy, - Xavier Leroy ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners