Re: A new use for Spamprobe - Interestingness vs Ho-hum Boring

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 07:10:55PM -0400, Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected] wrote:

> The math for bayesian filtering works for any number of categories (spam
> and ham being only two).  So instead of first classifying your email as ham
> or spam, and then classifying your ham as interesting or boring, you could,
> in one step, classify your email as spam, interesting ham, or boring ham.
> 

There's at least ifile which does n-way classifying. However, I
haven't tried it and it seems ifile is not developed anymore.

    http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/ifile/

There's also Select, dunno what it is:

    http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d97-miy/select/


> I don't know how much modification it would take, but spamprobe could be
> modified to support an un-fixed number of categories.
> 

Yes, I would like to see myself using some kind of intelligent
software instead of fixing my procmail recipies every time someone
upgrades Mailman (I think sourceforge just did, as some of my recipies
stopped working) :P


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