> Also, any suggestions from outside the dev team? Anyone got good ideas > for new SpamAssassin features that would be good to pay someone to work on > for 3 months?
I believe this was once mentioned on a Justin's blog (but can't find a ref now), the following sounds promising as an additional classifier to existing bayes (especially since the author comes from the same organization as myself :) http://www.virusbtn.com/spambulletin/archive/2006/01/sb200601-trec ijsSPAM2 PPM-D compression model Andrej Bratko (Josef Stefan Institute) Observations: The most startling observation is that character-based compression models perform outstandingly well for spam filtering. Commonly used open-source filters perform well, but not nearly so well or nearly so poorly as reported elsewhere. Mark
