Personally, I wasn't at all impressed with the Paul Graham web page http://www.paulgraham.com/spamfaq.html

Here's what his web page FAQ says:

        Q. Is this code available anywhere?
        A. Not yet. It is written in Arc(Lisp), which is itself not even released yet.
               
        Q. Will this code work with existing mail clients?
        A. Unfortunately I don't know anything about mail clients. This spam filtering software is part of a whole
                web-based mail program that we are writing to test "arc".
                Note: Paul Graham is the designer of the Arc language

Paul's test case seemed fairly simplistic, in that it only used 15 keywords based on 4,000
spam messages.

To be impressed I'd have to see it tested on a system with hundreds of thousands users
with a dozen different spoken languages, and run through a couple million spam messages.
I thought SpamAssassin (still in it's infancy) was already light years ahead of Paul.

To me all Paul is saying basically is that gee, spam blocking ought to use some intelligent
algorithm for content filtering, and Bayes looks promising. Nothing newsworthy to me.

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Greg
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