Posted by Eric Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:00:00 GMT
I'm in maze of twisty little library interfaces, all different. I'm dealing with three C libraries (MPW StdCLib, CarbonStdCLib.o and MSL), two MacOS platforms (PPC and Carbon), two build systems (MPW and CodeWarrior) and a growing sense of desperation. Of course, no piece of this cruft wants to talk to any other piece.
Posted by Eric Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:00:00 GMT
Sincere Choice: A lobbying effort arguing that free software and proprietary software should compete on an equal footing.
Posted by Eric Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:00:00 GMT
The FTC appears to have a huge spam database.
Posted by Eric Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:00:00 GMT
Useful sites about machine-learning algorithms, for developers of spam filters: Machine Learning Network, the Bow toolkit, Latent Semantic Analysis (used by Apple's mail client), Bayesian Latent Semantic Analysis, text clustering, more text clustering, Using Clustering to Boost Text Classification (PDF) and TFIDF notes.
I wouldn't be entirely surpised if neural networks worked well here, either--the problem has that "figure out where to draw the boundaries between clusters" aspect that maps nicely onto the math of neural networks.
Posted by Eric Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:00:00 GMT
For deadly-accurate spam filtering, combine a well-trained bogofilter with SpamAssassin. Here's how.
Add the following lines to your procmailrc file, before you run SpamAssassin:
:0HB
* ? bogofilter
{
:0fw
| formail -I "X-Spam-Bogofilter: yes"
} Add the following lines to your /etc/spamassassin/local.cf
file:
header BOGOFILTER X-Spam-Bogofilter =~ /yes/
describe BOGOFILTER Message has too many bogons.
score BOGOFILTER 5.0 Presto! This plugs almost all the holes in SpamAssassin's defense, and uses SpamAssassin's auto-whitelist (you've got it turned on, right?) to protect against false positives.
Eric Kidd lives in Vermont, where he works as the lead programmer on a 2D/3D multimedia engine.
He's into compilers, robotics, and programming language design. He's an unapologetic Lisp geek, and has recently been trying to port his favorite Lisp macros to Ruby.
