>>> Jeremy Hylton wrote
> Then I tried a dirt simple tokenizer for the headers that tokenize the
> words in the header and emitted like this "%s: %s" % (hdr, word).
> That worked too well :-).  The received and date headers helped the
> classifier discover that most of my spam is old and most of my ham is
> new.
Heh. I hit the same problem, but the other way round, when I first
started playing with this - I'd collected spam for a week or two,
then mixed it up with randomly selected messages from my mail boxes.
course, it instantly picked up on 'received:2001' as a non-ham.
Curse that too-smart-for-me software. Still, it's probably a good
thing to note in the documentation about the software - when collecting
spam/ham, make _sure_ you try and collect from the same source.
Anthony
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[Baseline] Raising chickens the high-tech way
From fork-admin@xent.com  Tue Jul 23 18:11:52 2002

>>From Egg to Drummies: 10 Weeks From Farm to Food
By  Larry Barrett
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,369038,00.asp
My breasts have been halved, breaded and shipped to their current
resting-place on a shelf in a supermarket in Denver. My legs should be
arriving in Moscow any time now. All my feathers have been processed and are
now being eaten by cattle somewhere in Texas. My blood and bones have been
rendered for cat food, fertilizer and who-knows- what else. My wings have
been seasoned with barbecue sauce and served with a side of ranch dressing
and celery at some bar and grill in New York City. My feet? Well, they're
headed to Asia where I'm told they're something of a delicacy.
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So, a couple of things intrigued me about this byline, and its associated
main article:
And On the 47th Day, This Chicken Went to Market
By  Debbie Gage
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,3959,367672,00.asp
- I had no idea how much computer controls played into the raising of
livestock
- I had no idea how fast a chicken is raised these days
It also strikes me that it will not be very long before livestock is
genetically engineered to be dumber and meatier, and better adapted to
living in industrial conditions.
- Jim
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