Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Alex Schroeder <alex@emacswiki.org>]

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, and all
words whose spaminess is close to 0.5 (common words occuring both in
spam and non-spam), and only the first few kb of all mails should be
analyzed.  Maybe I should write a sample usage that updates the
dictionary whenever you move mails into or out of the mail.spam group.
I know this is not what Teodor Zlatanov has in mind, but at least I
think I could do it myself.

Has anybody used spam-stat.el at all?  I must confess that I have not
yet added it to the fancy split rules myself, so perhaps we should
first start using it, before we start improving it.

Or should I just assign the copyright of spam-stat.el, then we can
move it into spam.el or whatever, and people will fix it as spam.el
gets wider usage?

Alex.