[Spambayes] A Spam Filter Evaluation

[Gil Hurlbut]

There is a recent study report on results of eleven variants of six widely
used open-source spam filters including SpamBayes.

The conclusion was "Supervised spam filters are effective tools for
attenuating spam. The best-performing

filters reduced the volume of incoming spam from about 150 messages per day
to

about 2 messages per day. The corresponding risk of mail loss, while
minimal, is

difficult to quantify."

I'll leave it to those with more time on there hands than I to decipher the
specific details on SpamBayes performance.

The report is at

 

http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/spamcormack06.pdf 

 

 

 

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