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Bayesian Spam Filtering

Of all the spam filtering techniques, Bayesian spam filters promise to be the most efficient and auto-adaptive while eliminating false positives almost completely. Find out how Bayesian spam filtering works, and how it can help you.

What You Need to Know About Bayesian Spam Filtering

Bayesian spam filters calculate the probability of a message being spam based on its contents. They learn from spam and from good mail, resulting in a very robust and efficient anti-spam approach that returns hardly any false positives.
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