« The Big Idea - RIP? | Main | Business Blog Book Tour »

February 01, 2004

SPAM Filter

I am using a new SPAM Filter - SpamBayes. It is great!

SpamBayes is an Open Source (FREE) SPAM Filter. The main filter focuses on the message body and tokenizes the message to find clues to determine if the message is SPAM.

It took a couple of days to learn all of the e-newsletters that I subscribe to and it is now catching about 95% of the SPAM that comes in.

There is a great review on Jon Udell's Weblog

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/13823/425763

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference SPAM Filter:

» Spam Bayes from The Ourhouse Weblog
On this tip from Jon Strande, I installed SpamBayes to Outlook. It's a cool bit of open source software and after a few days training, it's working very efficiently to separate the spam from the ham in email. I'm a... [Read More]

Comments

After reading your endorsement, I've installed it too. Early feedback: it seems to work pretty intelligently with only a moderate amount of training. And it stimulated me to tidy up my Outlook files, long overdue.

What I love about this is that something so helpful comes free and installs as easily as a piece of MS software, more easily even.

The comments to this entry are closed.

My Photo

Change Congress

  • Change Congress
    Change Congress

July 2008

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31