Using Naïve Bayes Method to Classify Text-Based Email

The World Talk Corporation estimates that over 60 million business people use e-mail. Many more use e-mail purely on a personal basis and the pool of e-mail users is growing daily. And yet, automated techniques for learning to filter e-mail have yet to significantly affect the e-mail market. Here, I attack problems that plague practical e-mail filtering and suggest solutions that will bring us closer to the acceptance of using automated...