Depending on how many addresses you have and if this is a one off you might be well off doing 4 yourself. You could write a script that would do 1, 2 and 3 and then interactively ask you whether to merge and what to merge.

In fact if you did this then you could add bits of code to do 4 as you went along. This way you will see the problems that are cropping up and will have a good idea of what is required to fix them.

Added: As I understand it baysian filters learn from experience. Maybe you could get the filter to look at you decisions above and learn from them. Potential to wander off into AI and expert systems here.

--tidiness is the memory loss of environmental mnemonics

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Merge/Purge address data by EvdB
in thread Merge/Purge address data by cleverett

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