Accuracy vs. Speed in Spam Detection

January 31st, 2007 by Batya | Category: Email Security | 1 Comment »

Terry Zink proposes a Two-Point spam filtering program on his anti-spam blog. The system would use a large pool of end-users to classify messages as spam/non-spam and then feed those classifications into a Bayesian filter to train it to recognize spam. He claims the system would be fast, but suffer from inaccuracy. Seems to me [...]