[Spambayes] degeneration
Neale Pickett
neale at woozle.org
Tue Jan 21 12:10:26 EST 2003
So one of the more interesting things I left the spam conference with
was Paul Graham's notion of "degeneration". The idea is simple. If you
tokenize "FREE!!!!", but that's not in your wordlist, try the following
until you get a match:
FREE!!!!
Free!!!!
free!!!!
FREE!!!
Free!!!
free!!!
FREE!!
Free!!
free!!
FREE!
Free!
free!
FREE
Free
free
He claims this helps a lot. I'm currently in the midst of getting
hammiefilter to integrate more cleanly with Gnus and Mutt, and merging
mboxtrain and hammiebulk. But this should be relatively easy to
implement and test. Any takers?
Neale
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