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filtering for wanted emails

Posted by: cthulhu tonic on October 29, 2003 08:16 PM
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I presume these bayesian filters calculate the probability of the email in question being a valid too.

I don't get spam so I would not know, but it seems considerably easier to identify emails you want to be getting. Hence you could do this before attempting to filter questionable emails.

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