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March 29, 2005
Bayesian filter for ham
I agree with Joel that SpamBayes does an excellent job on filtering out what I consider spam. I don't know why I never thought of this logical extension.
Bayesian filtering is really just a specialization of a long established AI algorithm for sorting documents based on training, and we thought, gosh, why not generalize the algorithm so that in addition to sorting incoming email into "spam," "suspect," and "ham," it also sorted all the ham into piles, for example, "sales," "tech support," and "job applications"?
It seems so obvious. I wonder if SpamBayes will add that feature for additional sorting.
Posted by mikel at March 29, 2005 09:33 PM
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