This is my first Chawlk note. I only registered as a new Chawlk user this morning, and to be honest, I was not sure that I would be overly interested in the site/service; however, there seems to be a good mix of users and content on the site and it occurred to me that the Chawk notes service might be a good place to post Dear Lazy Web type posts?! So here goes...
Dear Lazy Web
I am currently in the process of writing a new spam filter for the user comments system on website [crunchbang.org]. I am following the same principles as described by Mr Snook. Do you have any experience of writing/creating similar, and if so, do you have any tips for effectively separating the spam from the ham?
Best Regards,
Philip
» Writing An Effective Spam Filter ... Last Reply: 7 months ago by corenominal.
@Ozone42: A quote from the Wikipedia article you linked to:
I agree that this could become an unending activity, but I am not sure about the "pointless and unrewarding" part. Personally I find this type of task thoroughly interesting and rewarding. I have really enjoyed coding up my spamsnake and I am looking forward to continued tinkering :)
Also, I wonder myself about some parts of the points system [discussed in the linked article.] Having read the entire post and the comments, I am pretty sure that some of the flags/rules used are compound, so while they may appear odd on their own, they probably work well in conjunction with other rules.