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Re: Spam
From: Matt Curtin <cmcurtin () interhack net>
Date: 30 Mar 2002 21:53:34 -0500
"Mosher, Robert E." <robert.mosher () cmet af mil> writes:
How hard would it be to train a neural net to recognize spam?
Not terribly difficult. Enough spam has been collected that performing the analysis needed to build a few layers of recognizers shouldn't be much of a big deal. The real question is whether a neural net would be inherently better than a score-based system. I'd be inclined to believe that although a scoring system would probably be more expensive computationally (because in practice, all tests will probably be performed, as opposed to a neural net, where it'll take a path and perform a small number of tests), it'd probably also be more effective. Of course, you could build examples of efficient or inefficient implementations either way. -- Matt Curtin Interhack Corp +1 614 545 HACK http://web.interhack.com/ Author, Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security (Apress, 2001) Knight, Lambda Calculus | Certum quod factum. --Giovanni Battista Vico _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () nfr com http://list.nfr.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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