Peter Ballard wrote: > I've no idea if this will be of any use to anyone. But since I've gone > to the effort of writing it, I might as well make it publicly > available... > > Until last year, spam filtering was a source of frustration for me. > Freeware packages I tried (specifically, spamassassin and dspam) were > difficult to use. Custom rules using procmail were a pain. > > Then I noticed that python came with email parsing capabilities in the > email module. So I thought that maybe custom rules in python would be > easier than (a) custom rules in procmail, or (b) deciphering the > documentation of a package. And a lot more fun. > > It turned out to be very easy. I got the filter up in a few evenings, > and I've been using it successfully, and slowly enhancing it, over a > number of months. > > In short: a success story for "using the batteries" - at least in my > opinion. > > Source code, and a bit of documentation, is at: > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/diyspamfilter.html > > -- > Regards, > > Peter Ballard > Adelaide, AUSTRALIA > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~pballard/
Pete mate, Nice work, but your Web page on your DIY Spam Filter doesn't mention SpamBayes, which is surely the definitive Pythonic spam filter, as well as being eerily effective - see http://spambayes.sourceforge.net Not sure that the Reverend Bayes would have agreed with your theology - a bit too post-modern for him, no doubt, but he was nevertheless a lovely little thinker. Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
