A Bayesian Approach to Filtering Junk E-Mail - Microsoft Research In addressing the growing problem of junk E-mail on the Internet, we examine methods for the automated construction of filters to eliminate such unwanted messages from a user’s mail stream. By casting this problem in a decision theoretic framework, we are
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