SpamBayes wins PCW Editors Choice Award for anti-spam software.

[Alan Kennedy]

Hi All,

If there any contributors of SpamBayes reading, Congratulations! 
SpamBayes has won the Personal Computer World (pcw.co.uk) Editors Choice 
award for anti-spam software, in a review of anti-SPAM solutions in the 
October 2005 edition. (PCW, for those who don't know it, is sort of the 
UK's equivalent of Byte Magazine, except that it's still publishing 
after almost 25 years).

SpamBayes was one of two open-source apps in the group review, which 
included commercial products from Symantec, McAfee, and half a dozen 
other companies.

"""
... SpamBayes 1.0.1 is definitely in a league of its own: during our 
tests it obtained a 100% real success rate. It would have to be trained 
for several months in order to check that it isn't too strict on a daily 
basis and that it lets most of the "good" messages through. However, the 
fact that it's free, offers a high level of efficiency and is compatible 
with Outlook makes it ideal for anyone looking for a zero cost solution. 
As such, we think it deserves our Editor's Choice award. As with all 
Bayesian filters, it gets better with use, especially in terms of 
detecting wanted mail.
"""

The only problem was they listed the "manufacturer" of the software as 
SourceForge, so the product was known as "SourceForge SpamBayes". You 
guys need to come up a team/manufacturer name. (But there is a 
screenshot of the software in the review, and the "Python Powered" logo 
is right there for all to see).

Congratulations!

Unfortunately, PCW don't seem to have made the review available online 
(yet), so I can't provide a URL. Maybe someone else will have more 
success finding a URL?

thought-ye'd-like-to-know-ly'yrs,

-- 
alan kennedy
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