[Spambayes] alternatives to spambayes

[spambayes at kaishaku.org]

--> Wednesday, August 27, 2003, 7:11:33 AM, aarontay at mochamail.com wrote:

>> Does spambayes have any competition which is as accurate? I am willing to
>> consider commercial alternatives and require Windows support.

> Asking on a mailinglist specially developed to a certain software for alternatives to said
> software is usually not a good idea :) Espically, so when asking for commercial alternatives!

As a matter of curiosity, why do you think that is?

> Well, I'm a user of Popfile and have used K9, [both free, the former is open source] both are
> popular (perhaps the most popular bayesian filters currently? ) and are very accurate.
> Spambayes fans will of course claims spambayes is more accurate (well popfile is accurate
> enough for me at 99.5%) and point out that neither has a "unsure" classification.

I'll give them a try, great news that popfile allows multiple classifications.
Is popfile stable? The version number is tiny, not that it probably means much.

-kaishaku