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Topic: Filtering

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  Internet filtering    Content Filtering  
  Filtering Software    Web Filtering  
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Favorite website(s):Slashdot
Favorite possession(s):Linux box,  Windows computer,  Wiretap kit
Currently has on their coffee table:PC World
Dream job(s):Webmaster
Favorite TV show(s):Big Brother,  Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Favorite body part(s):Ears
Favorite book(s):"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
Interest(s):Computers
Favorite computer game(s):Hacking
Favorite online activity(s):Spamming,  Downloading porn,  Chatting on ICQ
Ultimate fantasy(s):Finding genuinely free porn on the internet
Membership(s):Electronic Frontier Foundation
Favorite quote(s):"A rolling stone gathers no moss"
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare
 
 
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Filtering and sorting functions The list of sent and received documents can be adjusted to your individual needs using different filters and sorting criteria.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

Spam filtering is a subset of text classification, which is a well established field, but the first papers about Bayesian spam filtering per se seem to have been two given at the same conference in 1998, one by Pantel and Lin, and another by a group from Microsoft Research.
Typically the spam filtering is a piece of free software (on Linux based systems) that is set up on the machine that gathers your email.
Other modules includes keyword filtering and filtering based on know spam sources.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Notification Filtering This section describes the mechanisms used by a notification originator application when using the MIB module described in this document to filter generation of notifications.
Scanmail or Other Antivirus Protection Services and SPAM Filtering These services are provided by third party software vendors pursuant to license agreements or other arrangements between such vendors and Internet Horizons Inc.
IP filtering functions to provide firewall protection for your computers and LAN with filtering rules that accept or deny incoming or outgoing data.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

Email filtering software helps stop spam, block email viruses, prevent relay abuse, and protect email networks from unsolicited junk mail.
E-mail filtering help manage your mail by filtering and routing spam or mailing lists into mail folders.
The filtering application can be set to automatically tag suspected spam emails, once tagged the email will be delivered to the end user where the Email Programme (such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express) will identify the tag and move the email to your junk folder.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

If you were doing Bayesian filtering in a situation where the ratio of spam to nonspam was consistently very high or (especially) very low, you could probably improve filter performance by incorporating prior probabilities.
Dan Toomey,
Computer Salesman

Introduction to Email Filtering Hometown Computing uses the Postini Mail Filtering system to provide SPAM protection for every dial-up customer and virus scanning for those customers who request it.
 
 
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