I'm surprised no one has mentioned 1.0.25. Taking into consideration the points already mentioned (which I agree with) regarding "cartoony" logos, 1.0.25 stands out for me as being a very sharp, bright, attractive, professional and modern design.
Not only that but it describes pictorially exactly what SA does (i.e. filtering) whereas a lot of the others leave the viewer to guess what it does. However, I suppose you could level the same criticism at Apache itself - it's not like the feather actually *means* anything. For what it's worth I'd wager that when your average user thinks of the word "SpamAssassin", or hears of "SpamAssassin filtering my email" then they will just think "spam blocking". I personally think the semantics of how it does it & the concept of varying levels of "spamness" is beyond the comprehension (or interest) of most people. In that respect I think clouding the logo with different coloured letters depending on level of spam would only confuse everyone, including sysadmins who had never heard of SA. I agree with the "ham" comment - mainly because its not as synonymous as "spam". Daz PS. 1.0.25 for the win! > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nancy McGough > Sent: 04 August 2004 08:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: SA Logo Contest !! AMAZING!! > > On 3 Aug 2004 Marc Kool ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > my 2 ct: I like 1.0.33 the most. > > I also like the ones with a shuriken, both 1.0.33 and > 1.0.27. A couple thoughts: > > * SpamAssassin does not necessarily identify spam and non-spam. > Instead it stratifies messages into > > almost surely spam > likely spam > unknown > likely non spam > almost surely non spam > > So instead of having the shuriken with all brown envelopes and > one blue envelope, it might make more sense to use colors of the > rainbow (as in 1.0.27) for the colors of the envelopes. This is > the metaphor that I use on my reverse spam filtering page, which > is here: > > <http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/spam/> > > > * I think it is better not to use the word "ham" anywhere in the > logo (e.g., don't say "Keep the ham, kill the spam") because some > people will be offended by using the word "ham" to describe their > "good mail." > > Nancy > Infinite Ink > www.ii.com > > PS - I agree that this is an amazing collection!
