On: A Bayesian filter for stupidity

[dfranke]

If I used that heuristic on email, most of PG's mail would be in my spam folder.

[jgrahamc → dfranke]

I agree, although there's nothing wrong with using 'comment length' as an input to some learning system. In POPFile we use quite a lot of 'meta' information about email including length to make a decision.

John.