[Spambayes] Maybe it's too late...

[Richie Hindle]

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> Bayesian techniques don't use a predefined set of features.

<pedant level='lawyer'>Yes they do.  Every time Spambayes classifies a
message, it looks for N predefined features in that message, where N is
the number of tokens in the training database.</pedant>

I haven't read the patent claim because I'm allergic to legalese, so this
might be irrelevant.

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Richie Hindle
richie at entrian.com