http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/09/22/trainable-spam-filter-testing en-us 40 Technology and Other Fun Stuff <p>Ever since Paul Graham published <a href='http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html'>A Plan for Spam</a>, "trainable" spam filters have become the latest fashion. These filters train themselves to know the characteristics of your personal e-mail. Supposedly, this extra knowledge allows them to make fewer mistakes, and makes them harder to fool. But do these filters actually work? In this article, I try out Eric Raymond's <a href='/stories/2002/09/13/bogofilter' title='Bogofilter: A New Spam Filter'>bogofilter</a>, a trainable Bayesian spam filter, and describe the steps required to evaluate such a filter accurately.</p><p><a href="http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/09/22/trainable-spam-filter-testing">Read More</a></p> Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:00:00 -0400 urn:uuid:c227afc7-6562-4fc5-8b77-7624df1aed2e Eric http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/2002/09/22/trainable-spam-filter-testing Spam Hacks Recommended http://www.randomhacks.net/articles/trackback/31