linux-kernel - Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

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Message-ID:  <loom.20061003T100646-668@post.gmane.org>
Date:	Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:08:56 +0000 (UTC)
From:	John Graham-Cumming <antispam@....org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc

Linus Torvalds <torvalds <at> osdl.org> writes:
> I'm sorry, but spam-filtering is simply harder than the bayesian 
> word-count weenies think it is. I even used to _know_ something about 
> bayesian filtering, since it was one of the projects I worked on at uni, 
> and dammit, it's not a good approach, as shown by the fact that it's 
> trivial to get around.

Have you actually followed any of the research into Bayesian (and similar
machine learning based) anti-spam filtering, and attacks on such filters?  Are
you making a claim that these filters are 'trivial to get around' based on a
project you did at University over 10 years ago?

John.


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