We suspect that you had more than enough mathematics in the form of Bayes Theorem last week so this week we’ll explain how it’s used in what is called Bayesian filtering to remove spam (note that the ...

Spam today represents as much as 85% of all e-mail sent and received, according to the U.N.'s International Telecommunications Union, up from approximately 35% just one year ago. Spam is a true global ...

Bayesian filtering is one of the most effective and intelligent solutions to combat spam email nowadays. Spam is a problem faced by all email users and it shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon; ...

No matter how your customers use their computers, there is one common denominator that affects them all: spam, which represents as much as 85 percent of all e-mail sent and received, according to the ...

Some say that if you can’t measure something, you’re not doing science. Bayesian logic offers a way to measure things that were previously unmeasurable, allowing us to test hypotheses and predictions ...

Every day at MacFixIt, we wade through hundreds - often thousands - of individual e-mail messages on a daily basis. With e-mail address harvesters more active than ever, just "cutting the fat" ...

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 users’ ...

While you’re waiting for President Bush to sign the CAN-SPAM law into effect, you can help counter spam with SpamSieve 2.1, the latest update to shareware developer Michael Tsai. SpamSieve provides ...

Of more than 300 billion emails sent every day, at least half are spam. Email providers have the huge task of filtering out spam and making sure their users receive the messages that matter. Spam ...