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Modern Scala Projects

You're reading from   Modern Scala Projects Leverage the power of Scala for building data-driven and high performance projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624114
Length 334 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ilango gurusamy Ilango gurusamy
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Spam classification problem


Any email service should process incoming mail intelligently. This could be classifications that produces two distinct, sorted streams of email, ham and spam. Email processing at the sentry level entails a smart vetting process—a classification task that produces two distinct, sorted streams of email—ham and spam. Gmail's sophisticated spam filtering engine filters out spam by a classification process, fulfilling, in a proverbial sense, the separation of the wheat from the chaff.

Spam can be a pernicious phenomenon in our daily lives, which is intimately tied to an increasingly connected world. For example, a binary classification is an ongoing deceptive link to apparently innocent looking websites hosting malware. Readers can learn why a spam filter can minimize problems spam can cause. These are summarized as follows:

  • Unethical companies harvest email addresses from the web and send out a flood of bulk emails to people. A Gmail user, say, [email protected],...
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