Spambayes + HTTP proxy server

[Paul Paterson]

After seeing it mentioned on the newsgroup, I just started trying out 
Amit Patel's proxy server (http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/proxy.html) 
which does a good job of blocking all sorts of annoying web page behaviours.

It occured to me that it would be possible to utilize this proxy server 
idea with the Spambayes classifier to come up with an all-Python web 
filter (suitable for use as a parental control or company internet monitor)

Essentially the proxy could be taught to classify pages by signature and 
block or restrict access to questionable pages rather than the 
traditionally buggy (in the sense of reporting false hits) keyword based 
approaches.

Does anyone have any experience in this area to say whether this 
approach is workable?

Paul