[Spambayes] Hourra for pop3proxy !

[John D.]

Francis writes:

>It is plug & play. First try with two pop server, everything was working as
>advertised. The training interface is really good. It just need some
>cosmetic improvements. I"ll try to come with some patches for this.

I already talking with Richie about me adding a 'Spam management' system.   Using an enhanced WEB GUI,  but allowing a number of "controls" for the classifier,  tokenizer,  and other spambayes tweakage.   Other things I want to include are spam management functions.   Making is easy to report spam,  send to use@ftc.gov,   etc.

I want to start defining the GUI as early as next weekend.   If anyone along this lines wants additional features,  please let me know.

So far planned:

  * Simplifying reporting to spamcop
  * Database for "frequent offenders"
  * Tracking tools for tracking their origin.
  * Testing validity of "opt out" addresses and links
  * Easy to use tracking and data collection on spammers.
  * References to the top anti-spammer links,  and interfacing
    data to these other anti-spammers.
  * establish a test connection to the spammers opt in pop server
    to see if that address is valid.

The Database will be using PostGreSQL and PyGreSQL modules.   Will work with Apache server,  using the Python ready "cgi" modules.

Will interface with the pop3proxy,  and would pass the spam from the proxy GUI to the database.

In tracking down spammers,  I'm finding it really difficult to keep track of the spammers.   Because I have to spend time identifying previous spams they did,  and looking through a large list.   Now,   I want to use the database to search for the spam in the database to see if it occured previously before,  so I can tell if it's a "repeat offender".

Now,  I want to be able to click on a spam message,  then click a query button to see if I got this spam before.   Most of the spam I get that are repeat offenders are identical,  so it should be easy to look them up.    Once I find a particular spam,   I'll have notes I took on them,   reminding me of my last correspondance with them.

Even though I spend a lot of time tracking them down,  they STILL continue to spam me,  even though I would talk to the owner.    I can then collect this data,  and use it for prosecution of "repeat violators".   I want to make it easy for EVERYONE to do this.

I'll call this module "SMS" (Spam management system) for lack of a better name.
I guess I would just put in seperate directory in CVS when I'm ready to release it.

John