Thursday, August 26, 2004

Anti-Spam Research

We've spent how long trying to develop a cure for cancer?

Well, I guess that since we haven't done that yet, we should be satisfied with this:


DNA analysis Spots E-mail Spam

Few would have thought that when Crick and Watson unravelled DNA, it would help in making a tool to fight spam.

But computational biologists at IBM's TJ Watson Research Center have devised an anti-spam filter based on the way scientists analyse genetic sequences.

Called after Feng Shui character Chung-Kwei, the formula automatically learns patterns of spam vocabulary and has proved to be 96.5% efficient.

In tests, the filter only misidentified one message in 6,000 as spam.

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So, what if that one in 6,000 is a note from that sexy blonde I emailed months ago at LonelyHeartsClub.com?!? Ed McMahon asking me to enter the American Family Publicher Sweepstakes?!?

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