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First of all, I really like this piece of code. I’ve
been interested in Bayesian filtering ever since Graham wrote his paper, and
your implementation is very useful. SpamBayes mostly works on my email, but occasionally an
important message from one of my business partners gets sent to the
questionable mail folder. I don’t want this to ever happen, not even one
time. There are some people with whom I correspond that are
completely trusted by me, regardless of the content they send. Yes, it is
possible that they could be impersonated. Yes, it is possible that a virus
could take possession of their laptop, but these are the risks you run in a
relationship. (I’m not going to give my girlfriend a weekly blood test
before I sleep with her.) In my experience, it is far too easy to get dogmatic about a
philosophy and forget what it is that we were trying to do in the first place.
And so, when people ask for white lists or black lists, the immediate reaction
is that this is not within the philosophy of Bayesian filtering. Well, true
enough. But they are SO easy to implement, and they could be an adjunctive
technology which moves your software from 98% to 100%; at least for me. All the best, and keep up the good work. --Rick Scherle |
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