Tobias DiPasquale on Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:10:19 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] mutt text/* auto-view hack


On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 02:09, sean finney wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 11:14:39PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > words, 141 characters). It's attached, for your amusement. I think
> > it's cool to know just how many words you wrote me when I read your
> > email. I'm trying to think of more interesting analyses to do.
> 
> if you want to go really crazy with it, how about an analysis for word
> frequency?  you could keep word counts of this list in some kind of
> giant histogram, and then have a program that tries to guess the
> sender from the content of his/her message :)

What you've described is naive Bayes. Its in use in programs like
POPFile and Bogofilter already, bogofilter having built-in hooks into
mutt currently.

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