From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/46166 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Paul Graham on fighting SPAM Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:53:10 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1029747321 24133 127.0.0.1 (19 Aug 2002 08:55:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:55:21 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17giJi-0006GX-00 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:55:18 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 17giIV-0006d1-00; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:54:03 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:54:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id DAA22343 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 03:54:22 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 27698 invoked by alias); 19 Aug 2002 08:53:46 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27686 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2002 08:53:45 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 19 Aug 2002 08:53:45 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id g7J8rGb15231 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:53:16 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id KAA15750; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:53:11 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id EACE23B1C6; Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:53:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (prj@po.cwru.edu's message of "Mon, 19 Aug 2002 01:44:05 -0400") Original-Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46166 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:46166 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? kai -- A large number of young women don't trust men with beards. (BFBS Radio)