Hands-On Python Deep Learning for the Web

Spam filtering

When half the emails being sent across the world are marked spam, it's an issue. While at first thought, we associate fraudulent and unnecessary emails promoting businesses and products as spam, that's only a part of the definition. It is important to realize that even good, quality content when posted on the same document several times over is spam. Furthermore, the web has evolved since the term spam was first used in Usenet groups. What was initially an activity performed with the intention of annoying people, or driving in messages forcefully to certain target users, spam today is much more evolved and potentially a lot more dangerous—from being able to track your browser activity to identity theft, there is a lot of malicious ...