[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/nondist/sandbox/spambayes GBayes.py,1.7,1.8

[Eric S. Raymond]

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net>:
> Some perhaps relevant links (with no off-topic discusssion):
> 
>  * http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/bogofilter/

I'm in the process of speed-tuning this now.  I intend for it to be
blazingly fast, usable for sites that process 100K mails a day, and I
think I know how to do that.  This is not a natural application for
Python :-).
 
> """My finding is that it is _nowhere_ near sufficient to have two
> populations, "spam" versus "not spam."  

Well, except it seems to work quite well.  The Nigerian trigger-word
population is distinct from the penis-enlargement population, but they
both show up under Bayesian analysis.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>