Re: Bug#192730: ITP: annoyance-filter

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Thomas Scheffczyk <scheff@verwaltung.uni-mainz.de> wrote:
> I intend to create a package for 'annoyance-filter'.

> Here a short description from the man page  of annoyance-filter:

> annoyance-filter  -  automatically  detect  junk  mail
> uses Bayesian  statistics  to  determine  the  probability  an  E-mail
> message  is junk based on an analysis of its contents compared to
> collections of known junk and legitimate E-mail.
[...]

There are already a bunch of statistical spamfilters in the archive:
spamprobe, bogofilter, ifile and spamoracle. Could you tell us how
annoyance-filter compares to them?

Please be aware that I am not claiming that annoyance-filter should not
be packaged, but I'd like to know.
                cu andreas