Archive for the ‘Email Security’ Category

February 6th, 2007

What is Bayesian Filtering and how it Fights Spam

mes_bayesian_dlg.thumbnail.gifRecognizing spam is not as easy as it might seem. For example, Yahoo! Groups put ads at the end of every e-mail, but if your users subscribe to such a group, they probably want to get the e-mail anyhow. Most users would just as soon discard any e-mail containing the word “Viagra,” but if you’re a pharmaceutical company, that might not be a wise policy. Press releases look a whole lot like spam, but discarding them would be a real problem for a working journalist. 

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