[Spambayes] Two Stage Plan
Tim Peters
tim.one at comcast.net
Wed Dec 18 23:56:34 EST 2002
MS-watchers should note that adaptive content-based spam filtering has been
a highlight of the very recent ad campaign (reported to cost $300 million --
nearly twice Python's ad budget for a whole year <wink>) for MSN 8. A broad
patent already covers it, and more are on the way:
http://tinyurl.com/3o6m
While it's unclear exactly what MS does, they've funded a ton of research on
"support vector machines" (a bad name for a cool technique); the patent
linked to above goes into that in some detail.
content-is-as-content-does-ly y'rs - tim
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