Wednesday, February 12, 2003

Mozilla and Spam Filtering -- 10:29 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

One of the big reasons I wanted to get Mozilla 1.3 beta is for the spam filtering. You teach it by marking messages as junk or not junk. Eventually, it learns and can judge for itself. I've been using it for about a day now. Of seven spam emails I received this morning, two were not identified as junk, five were, and one "real" email was mistakenly identified as junk (a Mandrake security bulletin). Not bad for only one day's training. Check this page for information on how Mozilla does all this and this page which serves as the basis for the concept.

The Master comments: I'm still a Win32 user (yeah, I know, I'm just an evil minion or something :-) and I'm trying out an app called K9, which so far is looking like a nice little spam killer. It's based on the same concepts as the Mozilla spam filters. I'll let you know how it works out.

News for 02/12/2003

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