We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

Spam today represents as much as 85% of all e-mail sent and received, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, up from approximately 35% just one year ago. Spam is a true global ...

No matter how your customers use their computers, there is one common denominator that affects them all: spam, which represents as much as 85 percent of all e-mail sent and received, according to the ...

Bayesian filtering is one of the most effective and intelligent solutions to combat spam email nowadays. Spam is a problem faced by all email users and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon; ...

Software maker Roaring Penguin Tuesday released an upgrade to its CanIt anti-spam program that includes Bayesian filters to help the software recognize spam and block it before it reaches end users’ ...

Does anyone have experience with or knowledge of good server side bayesian sorting?<BR><BR>I'm not looking for spam filtering, as I currently use spamassassin(with ...

Every day at MacFixIt, we wade through hundreds - often thousands - of individual e-mail messages on a daily basis. With e-mail address harvesters more active than ever, just "cutting the fat" ...

Some say that if you can’t measure something, you’re not doing science. Bayesian logic offers a way to measure things that were previously unmeasurable, allowing us to test hypotheses and predictions ...

A number of antispam products exist with various degrees of success. As spammers become more clever, new programs emerge, and old programs adapt. Many programs use a database of various rules to ...

While some would say there is no such thing as a free lunch, if by “lunch” they mean canned spam, they’re wrong. A free application called SpamPal will toss your junk mail in the can quietly, ...

Built-in and add-on spam busters—programs designed to work with your e-mail program to eliminate spam—go about determining what is and isn’t spam in a variety of ways. They may include some or all of ...

An analysis technique that has been applied to eliminating spam. It "learns" to differentiate real mail from advertising by examining the words and punctuation in large samples of both types of ...