Tuesday, April 20, 2004

Bayesian filters again

Well, it would seem I forgot to include the link for this story, so let's try it again. Experts say the best way to deal with the constant barrage of unwanted commercial e-mail, or spam, is to <A HREF="http://searchdomino.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid4_gci960396,00.html">set up several layers of defense</A> at various points in your company's messaging infrastructure. Conventional thinking holds that the most effective way to avoid spam is to examine the body and subject line of incoming messages with e-mail filtering programs that employ Bayesian logic, which uses knowledge of past behavior to decide which e-mails to accept.

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