Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, alex@emacswiki.org wrote:
> 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...

Do you want to integrate it with the current spam.el contents?  You
just need to add a function that uses spam-stats.el, that can be
invoked on a message buffer to return t or a number if spam is
detected, and nil otherwise.  See the spam-split function, it already
invokes the blackholes and whitelist/blacklist checks, and would
invoke your function as well.  I have to write the code to make those
checks user-selectable via some symbols, but that's a separate thing.

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