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,
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