Seasonal view from the deck

 Friday, February 23, 2007

Figuring out if mail is SPAM or what words are offensive is difficult, even more difficult is the problem of avoiding false positives. Most of this I knew, but I never spent to much time on the details. While following an internal discussion I learned that there is actually a name for some of these problems - The Scunthorpe Problem. A good mix of of the problems can be found on this Wikipedia link.

btw - now I'm wondering if mentioning the Scunthrope problem will put this enrty on some blacklists, I hope people are learning from others experience (hahaha - fat chance)

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