[Spambayes] fighting spam

[Thomas Hruska]

James Calfee wrote:
> Sorry you did not like my project; please see Thomas'e remarks below. 
> Next you might want to consider someone more professional to relay the 
> message.

This is a public mass e-mail list where anyone can reply - not just the 
developers.  And my first impressions of the tool were that it simply 
sent a reply message to whoever sent it, which would make the problem 
worse, not better - thus the _humorous_ comment in the given context.

If you want to have normal people understand what it is that the project 
offers, you need to fix the initial impression of your tool by changing 
the website to clearly and precisely label what it does, extend the FAQ 
significantly, and not assume a screenshot explains everything.  It 
might be obvious to you as to what it does but to me and the rest of the 
world, it isn't obvious.  I'm still not quite sure how it works even 
after having read some of the on-list replies and I visited the site 
before I replied.  There is simply insufficient information on the 
website to figure out how it works without downloading and installing it 
- and most people don't have the time for that.

Hopefully this explains my terse, yet humorous reply:  I was given the 
wrong impression, came to the wrong conclusion*, and came up with 
something witty based on that (wrong) conclusion.  I'm not a SB dev. 
(but I have hacked on some stuff to it).  Even the SB devs. here had 
difficulty understanding what it is that your tool does and at least one 
dev. came to the same conclusion I did.

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Thomas Hruska
CubicleSoft President
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