Mail/SpamTest/Bayesian version 0.02 =================================== This module implements the naive Bayesian spam-testing algorithm described by Paul Graham at: http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html In short: the system is trained by exposure to mailboxes of known spam and non-spam messages. These are (1) MIME-decoded, and non-text parts deleted; (2) tokenised. The database files spam.db and nonspam.db contain lists of tokens and the number of messages in which they have occurred; general.db holds a message count. This module is in early development; it is functional but basic. It is expected that more mailbox parsing routines will be added, probably using Mail::Box; and that ancillary programs will be supplied for use of the module as a personal mail filter. INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: BerkeleyDB MIME::Parser (in MIME::tools) Also useful will be: IO::File COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE This module is released under the same terms as Perl itself. Copyright (C) 2002 Roger Burton West