Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[(Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
>
>> Sounds like it.  Anyone know if this (or another) method generalizes
>> to more than two categories (spam/nonspam)?  If so, it could be used
>> for all mail splitting.  We wouldn't have to manually craft split
>> rules; we'd just seed a new group with the mails we have so far that
>> belong there, and their contents would let the computer guess which
>> new mails belong with them.
>
> I think you can assume that text classifiers can choose one out of N
> categories.  In some cases, this is implemented by having N yes/no
> classifiers and choosing the result from the one with the highest
> confidence value, but this is only an implementation detail.
>
> Using automatic classification for splitting would really be way
> cool.  Are there any mail readers which do this?

Mew does this with its mew-refile-guess-* functions, lists, and
variables.  It's not strictly automatic, but remembers and learns
from previous refiles (splitting, in gnusspeak.)

Chris