From ta-meyer at ihug.co.nz Tue May 18 04:27:24 2004 From: ta-meyer at ihug.co.nz (Tony Meyer) Date: Tue May 18 04:27:52 2004 Subject: [Spambayes-announce] ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes release 1.0rc1 Message-ID: <1ED4ECF91CDED24C8D012BCF2B034F13064C022E@its-xchg4.massey.ac.nz> The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce the latest release of SpamBayes - 1.0rc1. Like the last two versions, this is both a release of the source code and of an installation program for all Microsoft Windows users. The Windows installation program will install either the Outlook add-in (for Microsoft Outlook users), or the SpamBayes server program (for all other mail client users, including Microsoft Outlook Express). All Windows users (including existing users of the Outlook add-in) are encouraged to use the installation program. If you wish to use the source-code version, you will also need to install Python - see README.txt in the source tree for more information. This release fixes a number of reasonably minor bugs in the last release; however, we still highly recommend that existing users upgrade. For a detailed description of everything (well, everything we remember) that has changed since the last release, you can view our WHAT_IS_NEW.txt file, either online, or in the source distribution. Get it via the 'Download' page at http://www.spambayes.org/download.html Enjoy the new release and your spam-free mailbox :-) Thanks to everyone involved in this release, particularly, and as usual, Mark Hammond for putting most of this release together! Tony. (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) --- What is SpamBayes? --- The SpamBayes project is working on developing a Bayesian (of sorts) anti-spam filter (in Python), initially based on the work of Paul Graham. The major difference between this and other, similar projects is the emphasis on testing newer approaches to scoring messages. The project includes a number of different applications, all using the same core code, ranging from a plug-in for Microsoft Outlook, to a POP3 proxy, to various command-line tools. From perl at rhesa.com Tue May 18 21:19:53 2004 From: perl at rhesa.com (Rhesa Rozendaal) Date: Tue May 18 21:19:59 2004 Subject: [Spambayes-announce] Re: [Spambayes] ANNOUNCE: SpamBayes release 1.0rc1 In-Reply-To: <1ED4ECF91CDED24C8D012BCF2B034F13064C022E@its-xchg4.massey.ac.nz> References: <1ED4ECF91CDED24C8D012BCF2B034F13064C022E@its-xchg4.massey.ac.nz> Message-ID: <40AAB639.4090402@rhesa.com> Tony Meyer wrote: > The SpamBayes team is pleased to announce the latest release of SpamBayes - > 1.0rc1. First off, thank you very much for the new release. I just finished installing it, and it feels very good! The training web interface is a great deal more responsive, initial training of about 1000 messages was very quick, and it contains many other small improvements. I like the added statistics, and the many added advanced and experimental options. I do have two small comments though: - I was already running pop3proxy as a service, and the installer didn't want to install the new version. The reason at first was an unrecognised option in my old bayescustomize.ini in the [html_ui] section. After commenting the offending line, it just crashed. Of course I was running an older version (0.7a I think), and since this is only 1.0, no big deal. And manually removing the old service and installing the new version fixed it. [ I'm sorry to say I was so stupid to forget noting the offending option before throwing everything away, so I cannot include it here. I only remember there were two options in that section, and the offending one ended in _to, value True ] - Two of the new advanced options immediately caught my eyes: Default training for spam/ham. I always had to manually check 'discard' for those, so these looked like a real time saver. Given that I receive an average of 300 messages a day, of which ~50% is spam, and I only want to train on selected unsures, you can imagine it takes quite a bit of scrolling to find the spam section. I was hoping I could just quickly set the unsures to the correct values, and jump down to the page to press Train, but unfortunately these options are not honored. All hams still default to Ham, and all spams to Spam. [ A very small improvement for me would be a Train button at the top of the page. I trust Spambayes enough in its ham and spam judgments, so I do not need to look at those sections. In the past year, I have never had a false positive, and definitely less than 10 false negatives ] Overall, it looks like you greatly improved an already awesome product! So thank you very, very much! Rhesa Rozendaal > Tony. > (on behalf of the SpamBayes team) >