Any Neural Net code in Python? I want to filter out spam email

[Lars von Wedel]

Brilliant idea, that's cool. Go for it!

I remember some ANN code in the vaults of parnassus, math. section.
It was a rather basic backpropagation implementation.

Lars

Brad Clements wrote:
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I've been saving up all the spam messages I get for the past two months. I
> have about 1869 spam messages saved.
> 
> Now I'd like to develop a neural net based filter for my email program and
> train it to recognize these messages as spam.
> 
> I don't know much about neural networks, they just seemed to be the best way
> to go to solve this problem. Spam messages have particular characteristics
> that I can recognize (as a human), and I'm hoping to train a program to do
> the same.
> 
> Some indicators of spam are
> 
> All caps in subject
> keywords in body, like sex, viagra, penis, money, income, earn, free, free,
> free
> "weird" looking from address (username has many mixed digits or few vowels)
> very long messages
> 
> (lots of other things)
> 
> None of these items by themselves are clear indicators, so I think a neural
> network might be good at recognizing a spam pattern.
> 
> Anyone have any Python code or suggestions how to proceed?
> 
> --
> Brad Clements,
> bkc at murkworks.com
> 
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