What is bogofilter?
Bogofilter is a fast Bayesian spam filter along the lines suggested by Paul Graham in his article A Plan For Spam. bogofilter uses Gary Robinson’s geometric-mean algorithm with the Fisher’s method modification to classify email as spam or non-spam. The bogofilter home page at SourceForge is the central clearinghouse for bogofilter resources. Bogofilter was started by Eric S. Raymond on August 19, 2002. It gained popularity in September 2002, and a number of other authors have started to contribute to the project. The NEWS file describes bogofilter’s version history.
