Bayesian Spam Filtering Using Statistical Data Compression

Abstract

The Spam e-mail has become a major problem for companies and private users. This paper associated with spam and some different approaches attempting to deal with it. The most appealing methods are those that are easy to maintain and prove to have a satisfactory performance. Statistical classifiers are such a group of methods as their ability to filter spam is based upon the previous knowledge gathered through collected and classified e-mails. A learning algorithm which uses the Naive Bayesian classifier has shown promising results in separating spam from legitimate mail.