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

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

Yeah, in general, let's say that I like technical articles but not so much the personal stuff.  I could have hep flag what it deems "non-technical" and throw that in a different folder, or I could say that I want to categorize Java stuff separately.  Or what could be really cool is to come up with my own categories and have hep assign incoming posts to categories based on what it thought the category should be.  To do this using bayesian filtering, I think that you'd have to build a chain, or maybe a tree, of filters.  For instance, you could create a heirarchy like this: 
  
everything  
   Technical 
      Java 
         J2EE 
      .NET 
      Functional Programming 
   Non - Technical 
      Sports 
         Football 
         Baseball 
      Politics 
  
The filters would take a best guess at where a message belonged and put it in the correct folder.  It's basically the reverse of how bloggers put categories on messages to organize their content - could I do the same thing on incoming messages?  
  
Like I say, this is all very much in the speculative stage.  It could definitely be done on the client side, with something like a mail reader plugin.  I'm thinking that hep might have a better view of the incoming data though and provide a nice integration point.  Plus, with IMAP support, I could expose all those categories as folders and provide the same service at a central server.  What I need to do is get off my butt and do some prototyping (darn day job gets in the way!), see if I can get any encouraging results, and then worry about how to integrate it... 
  
-----Original Message----- 
  
> Abe Fettig wrote: 
  
So, for example, you could make a "Really Interesting News" folder, and 
put messages that you thought were interesting in there, and then the 
Bayesian filter would compare each incoming message to the contents of 
that folder and determine if the message was Really Interesting or not. 
Is that the sort of thing you'd want to do?