Hello,

I'm Avik, 3rd yr (junior) bachelor CS student from Bengal Engineering & Science University,Shibpur.

I went through the GSOC '13 ideas list and found the project *Anti-spam/anti-abuse in mailman* very interesting. I also would like to say that I also fulfill all the necessary prerequisites given in the project ideas page.

A little about myself I have about 4 years of programming experience, I am the coordinator of the Software Club in my University and help first and second year students with Algorithms, I sometimes also take coding sessions here. My team qualified for the ACM-ICPC 2012 Regionals(only team selected from my university in that region). I also have over two years experience in machine learning, NLP (just developed a very basic rudimentary twitter classifier) and have about 5 years experience in statistics.

I'm hoping to participate in GSoC since while I'm an avid open-source enthusiast, I haven't had any chance in contributing to something this big before and it's about time to fix that.You can find some of my toy projects at https://github.com/avikpal

I have been going through the links given in the mailman developers' page and documentations here and there, maybe you can help me with some useful resources so that right away I can start contributing by fixing small bugs and in this way sharpen my skills before GSOC actually starts.

I will be accessible by email and through IRC (nick avikp at freenode), but since my time zone is UTC+5:30, I might not be there at all times just drop me a mail and I will get in touch as soon as possible. Avik Pal Bengal Engineering & Scieence University,Shibpur github:https://github.com/avikpal IRC:- irc://freenode/avikp,isnick twitter:-https://twitter.com/avikpalme