Re: [Hepserver-devel] Status of IMAP / integrating filtering

[Gordon W. <gwe...@od...>]

Abe Fettig wrote:

>>2) I've been thinking about experimenting with integrating Bayesian 
>>classification into Hep.  I've been studying the source for Spambayes, 
>>but I'm wondering if/how it could fit into Hep's architecture.  I guess 
>>the easiest answer is to put Spambayes' POP3 filter in front of the POP3 
>>protocol - do you think that there's a way to get it all into the same 
>>package?  I think that to get Bayesian filtering to work, you'd have to
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>My feeling is that it probably makes sense to put any kind of filtering
>into the Hep core, rather than tying it to POP3 or another protocol. 
>Could you give me a better idea of what you could use Bayesian filtering
>for?  I know basically how it's used for spam detection, but to the best
>of my knowledge nobody is using Hep to read e-mail at the moment...
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The point is more managing information - Graham's paper was specifically 
targeting spam but since then there's been various people talking about 
extending the idea to just general classification.  My idea was 
specifically that you could create categories and then have a program 
tag incoming messages based on what category it thought they should be 
in.  I have no idea if it would work, but I've been kicking the idea 
around and thought that it would be worth experimenting with.