[Spambayes] Slice o' life

[Sean True]

I think I'm in agreement with Tim. This stuff is wicked cool. And a simple
regexp filter written in Python was easy to
write, and easier to maintain than all those rules in Microsoft's pseudo NL
syntax.

I train my classifier with the out of the box parameters, and I run Outlook
with it turned on all the time.
Outlook may not be your mailer of choice, but it has a fine UI for sorting
mail.
Makes weeding the remnant spam from the mailbox of 4500+ genuine ham much
faster.

Hat's off to Mark for doing the heavy lifting of wiring up a Python addin
for Outlook.
Before that I was working with a really crappy VBA macro package that almost
worked.
Mark has been making daily improvements in the UI and the integration. It's
COOL stuff.

IMHO, and my daily practice, this stuff is ready for deployment, and
deployment inside the MUA
makes some sense. The user is the one who knows what spam really is. It's
the stuff in the Spam
folder! Even if we can provide an efficient server side version for general
spam (all that mail from Nigeria),
I'm not sure that it's practical (or even wise) to do it all on the server.

I've also trained filters to recognize some other mail classifications, and
they work quite
nicely.

Thanks, folks.

-- Sean