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James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 02:31:59 JST James Morris
AI/ML question: why hasn't spam email been solved yet? -
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Doug WA6L (dug@mastodon.radio)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 02:45:02 JST Doug WA6L
@jmorris one reason is that no one wants to pay for email
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SnoopJ (snoopj@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jul-2023 02:50:12 JST SnoopJ
@jmorris I think the main problem is that "solved" there is a pretty fuzzy concept, unless we take it to mean "all non-spam is delivered, all spam is filtered", but then the question morphs rapidly into "what is spam, anyway?"
And softer goals seem to turn into moving targets. Bayesian filtering/etc. definitely makes the problem more tractable, but I feel like the "solution" always ends up with a small army of personnel minding the filtering machinery and keeping it well-oiled.
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mcgov (mcgov@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Jul-2023 05:36:55 JST mcgov
@jmorris we haven't even solved spam for physical mail
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