From alfredchastain at gmail.com Fri Oct 25 10:27:12 2013 From: alfredchastain at gmail.com (Bruce Chastain) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:27:12 +0200 Subject: [spambayes-dev] Volunteer Opportunities Message-ID: Hello, I may be interested helping with your project, if there any opportunities I can tell you about myself. thanks, Alfred -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From skip at pobox.com Fri Oct 25 17:35:31 2013 From: skip at pobox.com (Skip Montanaro) Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:35:31 -0500 Subject: [spambayes-dev] Volunteer Opportunities In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > I may be interested helping with your project, if there any opportunities I > can tell you about myself. Glad to have help. Our biggest stumbling block for the past several years has been lack of help on the Windows side (creating installers and debugging issues Windows users encounter). Pretty much everyone who used to be active is off doing other things. A more practical problem is that the ISPs do a better job these days of spam filtering, leaving less for SpamBayes to munch on. I don't use SB myself these days, as pobox.com and Gmail nab so much of it and tend to not have many false positives. Looking at the core classifier, I think the biggest need is to investigate performance on non-ASCII character sets. SpamBayes is explicitly disabled for a number of non-English mailing lists hosted on mail.python.org. It might just be lack of Greek, Polish, etc messages in the training database, but we won't know for sure without some research. Python 3 support would be nice as well. Still interested? :-) Skip