People who have email ask the same question as surprised diners "Who ordered the spam?"(probably u dont but mebbe other peeps) Nobody did but sending back the spam only brings more spam. New tools were made for fighting the spams like the filters that look for telltale signs that a message is spam but the spammers easily defeat the filters, spammers disguise their words and intent of their messages. To get what you want from the server (which is no spams) , you have to use intricate, trained filters that use math and that makes it not bring up any spams. Using Bayes' Theorem avoids the spammer's messages. Spammers adapt their messages to avoid many anti-spam tools. If you have an email you notice certain words that look like a spam such as: "You won 1,000,000 dollars!" Your filter (if you have one that uses math) recognizes similar words as more spams come up, so it gets trained to not bring up the certain email again. This is a powerful application (Bayes' Theorem) of an old and basic mathematical result. Mathematicians use old and new mathematical tools to continue advancing their skills to battle spams.
Saturday, March 8, 2008
SPAM ALERT!!!
Posted by Tinkerbell at 6:32 PM
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