Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

Danny Siu <dsiu@adobe.com> writes:

> since we had much discussion on spams lately, it is worthwhile to see read
> about what lisp guru thinks the content based filters can effectively kill spams.
>
> <URL:http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html>

I posted some code to g.e.sources to implement the basics.  If anybody
feels like fooling around with it, I'd be happy to read about it.
There's also a comment by Kai on it in g.e.help.

* http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?SpamStat

Things I'd like to see: Efficient storage and retrieval of the data
from disk.  Based on 3351 mails, 298 of them being spam, I got a
dictionary of 650k; preparing it used an intermediary file of 7m.
Once saving is fast, I'd like to update the stats as we go along to
avoid the long preparation times.  Updating the stats requires the
original 7m of data, however.  So before delving into all of this, I'd
prefer to see wether it works, see what other people think, collect
some ideas and patches...

Alex.