Aaron> Is there such a thing as an open-source spam filter? That way Aaron> any time anyone had spare time and got annoyed, they could dump a Aaron> short snippet of code into the grinder.
Yes: <http://spambayes.sf.net/> though I think your model of how it works probably needs a bit of refinement. <wink> You might want to read through the background reading page: <http://spambayes.sf.net/background.html>. It's what we're running on the python.org site. The initial impetus for it came from a desire to filter spam for python.org mailing lists. If you'd like to contribute we can always use developers. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list