To help fight spam, an excellent—and free—solution has emerged, inspired by the work of an English minister who died in 1761, the Rev. Thomas Bayes.

Bayesian filtering works by pure statistics, which is far simpler and computationally more efficient than trying to have a filter that understands message syntax or content in any meaningful way ...

These technologies are not obsolete, but cannot be relied upon without a Bayesian filter. Current spam detection techniques Spam is an ever-increasing problem.

Software maker Roaring Penguin Tuesday released an upgrade to its CanIt anti-spam program that includes Bayesian filters to help the software recognize spam and block it before it reaches end ...

Does anyone know of a spam filter which can be used with Eudora on Mac OS 9?I know that's a strict set of requirements, but it's for my boss.The only Bayesian filters I know of on the Macintosh ...

This paper reports simple, novel Bayesian filters that are robust to step-like dynamics in noise, and introduce an L1-regularized, global filter whose sparse solution can be rapidly obtained by ...

Vounatsou and Smith (1995, Biometrics 51, 687-708) describe the modern Bayesian analysis of ring-recovery data. Here we discuss and extend their work. We draw different conclusions from two major data ...