From liamjeyre at gmail.com Thu Apr 23 15:01:09 2020 From: liamjeyre at gmail.com (Liam Eyre) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 20:01:09 +0100 Subject: [spambayes-dev] Bayesian Spam Filter Message-ID: Hi SpamBays Development Team, I am looking to get involved in some python volunteer work, I greatly enjoy this programming language and have completed some study in this area. Checking through volunteer opportunities on python.org I have come across yours. Do you still need help? Kind regards, Liam Worthington-Eyre -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skip.montanaro at gmail.com Thu Apr 23 17:32:52 2020 From: skip.montanaro at gmail.com (Skip Montanaro) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:32:52 -0700 Subject: [spambayes-dev] Bayesian Spam Filter In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > I am looking to get involved in some python volunteer work, I greatly enjoy this programming language and have completed some study in this area. > > Checking through volunteer opportunities on python.org I have come across yours. > > Do you still need help? Liam, I'm not sure where you've been looking, but if you found us, it was for something we posted long, long ago. :-) That said, I believe there are three reasons why SpamBayes hasn't advanced in a long while: 1. The lack of someone able to build a Windows installer for new releases. Traditionally, SpamBayes most common user has been on Windows, running Outlook. 2. The need to port from Python 2 to Python 3. SB was available in some Linux distros, but I think has been dropped (or will be shortly) because it doesn't run on Python 3. 3. The relative improvement in other easier-to-use spam filters. For example, Google's is pretty darn good these days. If you are able to help with either of the first two road blocks, I think that would be great. Skip