Naive Bayesian spam filtering effectiveness

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Published on 2008-12-12T04:44:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 11:06 UTC
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How effective is naive Bayesian filtering for filtering spam?

I heard that spammers easily bypass them by stuffing extra non-spam-related words. What programming techniques can you use with Bayesian filters to prevent that?

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