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From: <kw...@us...> - 2003-01-06 02:13:02
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Update of /cvsroot/tess/homepage In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv31747 Modified Files: index.html Added Files: README Log Message: Massive update and added README --- NEW FILE: README --- The htdoc root is at shell.sourceforge.net:/home/groups/t/te/tess/htdocs Index: index.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/tess/homepage/index.html,v retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 retrieving revision 1.2 diff -C2 -d -r1.1.1.1 -r1.2 *** index.html 5 Jan 2003 21:36:00 -0000 1.1.1.1 --- index.html 6 Jan 2003 02:13:00 -0000 1.2 *************** *** 1,13 **** <html> ! <head> ! <title>The Spam Secretary</title> ! </head> ! <body> ! <h1>The Spam Secretary</h1> ! There is nothing here yet.<br> ! Please look <a href="http://www.sourceforge.com/projects/tess">here.</a> ! <address> ! <a href="mailto:kw...@po...">Kurt Werle</a> ! </address> ! </body> </html> --- 1,75 ---- <html> ! <head> ! <title> ! The Spam Secretary ! </title> ! </head> ! <body> ! <table width=100%> ! <tr> ! <td> ! </td> ! <td align=center> ! <font size=+2>The Spam Secretary</font> ! </td> ! <td> ! </td> ! </tr> ! <tr> ! <td valign=top align=left> ! <ul> ! <li><a href="#overview">Overview</a> ! <li><a href="#works">How Does it Work?</a> ! <li><a href="#well">How well does it work?</a> ! <li><a href="#use">How do I use it?</a> ! <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tess">SourceForge page</a> ! </ul> ! </td> ! <td> ! <p> ! <a name="overview"> The Spam Secretary is an anti-spam mail filter based on the article at <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html" target=_blank>http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html</a>. It is a single file written in python and is easy to install. It is mailclient independent, and the hope is that it will be MDA independent as well. As long as you can specify a program to run when you deliver mail, have python installed, and your mail is stored in mbox format (maildir format forthcoming), you're all set.</a> ! <p> ! Please look <a href="http://www.sourceforge.com/projects/tess">here for files and documentations.</a> ! <p> ! <a name="works">In breif, the filter works by keeping track of how often a word appears in smap mail vs. non-spam mail. If a word often appears in spam, but only seldom appears in non-spam, the odds of that message being spam are greater. In this way, the 15 "most interesting" (most and least spam-probable) words are found in an incoming message and the message is sorted accordingly. This sounds so obvious and easy that it's hard to believe it really works, but it does.</a> ! <p> ! <a name="well">How well does it work? Once you have built up a reasonable database of words, I've seen it work at least 95% effective. What's more, I've NEVER had it assign a "false positive" - guessing something is spam that is not.</a> ! <p> ! <a name="use">The program is really rather flexible, and can be used in several different ways. The only real requirements are that you need to have python (I use 2.2) and you have to be able to invoke a python script to deliver mail. That way the script can put the incoming message into one of two boxes: either "regular incoming", or "spam incoming". After that, the options vary a lot depending on how YOU read and handle your mail. What I do is save all messages that are verified spam (I've checked to make sure the messages in the spam box are really spam, or I move spam that was not correctly identified) to a "VerifiedSpam" mailbox. Regular email that I'm done with, I just delete, which moves it to the "Deleted" mailbox. Then, every time I get a new message, the contents of "VerifiedSpam" and "Deleted" are consumed (parsed and deleted) by TeSS and added to the appropriate word database. All of this is handled in the single command in the .forward file.</a> ! <p> !   <!-- add a spacer --> ! </td> ! <td> ! </td> ! </tr> ! <tr> ! <td> ! </td> ! <td> ! <table> ! <tr> ! <td> ! TESS is ! </td> ! <td> ! <a HREF="http://www.python.org/"> <img SRC="http://starship.python.net/crew/just/pythonpowered/PythonPowered.gif" ALIGN=top WIDTH=110 HEIGHT=44 ALT="Python Powered" BORDER=0></a> ! </td> ! <td> ! Hosted by ! </td> ! <td> ! <A href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/tess"> <IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=62844&type=5" width="210" height="62" border="0" alt="SourceForge.net Logo"></A> ! </td> ! </tr> ! </table> ! </td> ! <td valign=bottom align=right> ! Written by ! <address> ! <a href="mailto:kw...@po...">Kurt Werle</a> ! </address> ! </td> ! </tr> ! </table> ! </body> </html> |
