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Winning the War on spam: Comparison of Bayesian spam filters (dataparity.no)

A comparison of Bayesian spam filters by Kristian Eide is available on dataparity.no. "Fortunately, just as we seemed to be losing the war on spam, a new technique appeared on the scene after a paper by Paul Graham: Bayesian filters, our last, best hope for spam-free inboxes." Four spam filters are compared in the article.
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Winning the War on spam: Comparison of Bayesian spam filters (dataparity.no)

Posted Aug 21, 2003 16:55 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Just as Bayesian filters seem to be helping win the war, the spammers come
up with ways around it. The latest is to use multipart/alternative,
putting the spam in the HTML part and some 6-paragraph innocuous bit of
text in the plaintext part.

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