Bayesian approach to greylisting of trolls

Christopher Chan christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk
Thu May 7 02:21:17 UTC 2009


> Interesting idea. I suggest we apply a Bayesian approach to this
> problem. Only as a thought experiment, of course. I think it would not
> be practical to implement this for real.
>
>   


Are you volunteering to babysit the thing? A thought experiment is 
rather pointless even as theories are pointless until they become proven 
laws. I personally feel, having had tried this sort of thing against 419 
scams, that this will not help as there is not set pattern to filter and 
bayesian approaches to killing 419 scams, which more or less have a set 
pattern or set patterns, will always need constant eye balling.




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