[tw] : SpamSieve: Bayesian Filter for Spam in Mailsmith

“SpamSieve: Bayesian Filter for Spam in Mailsmith”
From:	Seth Dillingham	In Response To:	Top of Thread.
Date Posted:	Saturday, October 12, 2002 7:47:47 PM	Replies:	2

Enclosures:	None.

This morning I installed the trial version of SpamSieve, a spam detection utility for use with Mailsmith, Entourage, and PowerMail.

SpamSieve uses bayesian filters to learn what you think is, and is not, spam. After it's been trained thoroughly enough (meaning, it's seen at least a few thousand messages of both types), a bayesian filtering system should have near perfect accuracy in detecting spam.

It was easy to set up, and so far it doesn't appear to be slowing down the filtering in any noticeable fashion. (Actually, the installation instructions include a trick for accelerating the process of downloading and filtering mail, and it definitely made a difference.)

I've fed it a few thousand messages from my existing mailboxes, but it'll be quite awhile before I've received enough spam to really consider it "trained." For the last few days, I've only been receiving ten to fifteen pieces of junk mail per day. That's way down from what it was just a week ago. (Brian Andresen says the same is true for him.)

Discussion Thread:

Brent Switched to Mail.app for Bayesian Filters (by Seth Dillingham at 10/23/2002)

Brent Simmons mentioned today that he switched to Mail.app from Eudora, because of the bayesian filters
SpamSieve 1.2.1 (by Seth Dillingham at 11/19/2002)

Michael Tsai has released SpamSieve 1.2.1 . The best thing about this upgrade is that it now supports
- Re: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Philippe Martin at 11/19/2002)
  
  At 18:21 -0500 19/11/02, Seth Dillingham wrote: >The best thing about this upgrade is that it now supports
  - RE: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Seth Dillingham at 11/19/2002)
    
    On 11/19/02, Philippe Martin said: >At 18:21 -0500 19/11/02, Seth Dillingham wrote: >>The best thing
    - RE: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Philippe Martin at 11/19/2002)
      
      At 18:58 -0500 19/11/02, Seth Dillingham wrote: >You don't know what you're missing, this is a great
- Re: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Jim Roepcke at 11/19/2002)
  
  On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 03:21 PM, Seth Dillingham wrote: > Apple's horrendous Mail.app More
  - RE: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Seth Dillingham at 11/19/2002)
    
    On 11/19/02, Jim Roepcke said: >More horrendous than what? Eudora with it's UI that has got to be >the
    - Re: SpamSieve 2.1 (by Jim Roepcke at 11/19/2002)
      
      On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 04:43 PM, Seth Dillingham wrote: > Give it a break. That was a problem
    - RE: SpamSieve 1.2 (by Brian Andresen at 11/20/2002)
      
      (My opinion is slightly colored by the fact that I've been using an as-yet-unreleased version for about

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