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Use Bayesian Spam Filtering to Get Rid of Junk Email

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

Of all the spam filtering techniques, Bayesian spam filtering is the most promising. By analyzing messages that you have classified as spam, Bayesian junk mail filters can calculate the probability of new mail being spam.

Since Bayesian spam filters not only take spam into account but also look at all the good mail, they can get a pretty good idea what is characteristic of spam, and since they learn with every message, Bayesian spam filters adapt to the latest spammer tricks automatically.

To make use of Bayesian spam filtering

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