Feast your eyes on this little beauty:

This is Bayes’ formula. It is the maths behind the Bayesian filtering used by spam-catching apps like SpamSieve, SpamFire and JunkMatcher.

Process Software offers a lucid and racy explanation of how Bayes’ forumula works to keep spam out of your Inbox. You will be surprised how interesting it is. I was.

Apple Mail’s built-in Junk Filter uses a different process called “Latent Semantic Analysis”.

“Mail.app’s Junk Filter is not like the others” contains a number of links to explanations of LSA and how it differs from Bayesian filtering.spam, lsa, latent semantic analysis, bayesian filtering, junk filter, mail.app, apple mail

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