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Andrew Starr - 23 Feb 2008 22:23 GMT

So, when they pry my cold fingers from Eudora, will there be a way to
port my junk profile to a new program?

Or will Bayesian spam filtering be a thing of the past in a few years
such that I need not worry?

-Andrew

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Bill Cole - 24 Feb 2008 22:46 GMT

> So, when they pry my cold fingers from Eudora, will there be a way to
> port my junk profile to a new program?

Maybe... Ask Qualcomm and the authors of the specific new program you
want to use.

If you are a mail packrat and save everything you've used to train
Eudora, and if the new program is capable of reading Eudora mailboxes
and training based on an existing corpus, you can train the new program
with the same messages that trained Eudora. Importing the distilled
training state built by Eudora into some other program is a different
issue, but that state looks like a simple text file with obvious
semantics...

> Or will Bayesian spam filtering be a thing of the past in a few years
> such that I need not worry?

Bayesian filtering is unlikely to ever become fully obsolete. The
logically possible means of evasion are intrinsically self-defeating. On
the other hand, the usefulness of any Bayesian training state for spam
decays over time because spam changes over time.

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