DRAFT: Open friendly letter from bogofilter to qsf.

[David Relson]

Matthias,

Looks very good.  I've only made a couple of small changes.

At 06:00 PM 1/19/03, Matthias Andree wrote:


>Andrew,
>
>I have recently come across your qsf project.
>
>I am speaking on behalf of David Relson and myself, we are two of the
>bogofilter developers.

... and myself, who are two ...

>bogofilter is a project similar to qsf, started by Eric S. Raymond, and
>it shares some of its key concepts (procmail/maildrop integration, data
>base, Bayesian approaches) with qsf, it's under the GNU General Public
>License.

bogofilter is a project similar to qsf.  We describe it as "A spam filter 
that's fast, trainable, and learns".  The project was started by Eric S. 
Raymond and shares some of its key concepts ...


>Since September 2002, bogofilter is hosted on SourceForge.net,
>http://bogofilter.sourceforge.net/.
>
>I invite you to look at our web site and/or code, we currently have MIME
>decoding (base64 and quoted-printable) and reducing HTML comments that
>are used to break up tokens to deceive spam filters; we are storing our
>tokens in a BerkeleyDB data base, and offer three different algorithms
>(among them Paul Graham's, then Robinson's, and Robinson-Fisher) to
>classify messages.
>
>Adrian Otto hosts two bogofilter mailing lists, one for users,
>bogofilter at aotto.com, one for developers, bogofilter-dev at aotto.com
>(confirmed/double opt-in subscription by sending an empty mail to
>bogofilter-subscribe at aotto.com or bogofilter-dev-subscribe at aotto.com),
>and we have our code in SourceForge's CVS.
>
>We'd like to ask you if you'd have general interest in joining forces
>with us, possibly avoiding reinventing wheels that have been invented
>before.
>
>Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>--
>Matthias Andree
>
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