Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Piers Cawley <pdcawley-ding@bofh.org.uk>]

Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org> writes:

> Anyway, what shall we do with spam-stat.el, now?  An ifile user
> suggested I write code to reduce the dictionary size again -- perhaps
> I should remove all the words occuring less than 5 times, 

Then how do you incrementally change the dictionary? Where do you
magically remember that some word has been seen 4 times already and
should therefore go in the dictionary this time.

> and all words whose spaminess is close to 0.5 (common words occuring
> both in spam and non-spam), 

That sounds like a bad idea, maybe if a word hangs around the .5 mark
for a certain number of dictionary builds...

> and only the first few kb of all mails should be analyzed. 

Only if you can tune that.

-- 
Piers

   "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a language in
    possession of a rich syntax must be in need of a rewrite."
         -- Jane Austen?