[Spambayes] Using SpamBayes to filter something else than emails

[Herb Martin]

> say you have a high-traffic classifies website and want the 
> computer to work for you approving ads that would be required 
> to be approven by hand. These ads would be inserted by a user 
> from a web form and, as such, wouldn't have an email format. 
> How good would spambayes be at filtering this kind of content 
> knowing that it won't be feeded with email headers and the like?
> 
> Also could anybody compare Spambayes with Reverend by the 
> fine folks at divmod.org 
> (http://www.divmod.org/projects/reverend) which seems very 
> easy to use?

Might work, but you likely will have better luck and
more control (e.g., command line version) with DSpam
or CRM114.

CRM114 is not just a spam filter but rather a language
for writing filters and classifiers that includes a
spam filter as an example (the primary example.)

--
Herb Martin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Lorenzo Bolognini
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:57 PM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Using SpamBayes to filter something else 
> than emails
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> say you have a high-traffic classifies website and want the 
> computer to work for you approving ads that would be required 
> to be approven by hand. These ads would be inserted by a user 
> from a web form and, as such, wouldn't have an email format. 
> How good would spambayes be at filtering this kind of content 
> knowing that it won't be feeded with email headers and the like?
> 
> Also could anybody compare Spambayes with Reverend by the 
> fine folks at divmod.org 
> (http://www.divmod.org/projects/reverend) which seems very 
> easy to use?
> 
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
> 
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