> It would appear that all of our Windows programming expertise > is more-or- > less permanently booked these days. Most of the user questions to the > spambayes list seem to be related to Outlook or Outlook > Express. Those > questions tend to get answered most of the time, but getting > a new release > tested, built and out the door (one is sorely needed I think) is tough > because of the Windows barriers. > > I propose we solicit some new Windows programming help from > the broader > Python community > (http://wiki.python.org/moin/VolunteerOpportunities and/or > comp.lang.python). Any thoughts about that?
In general I think that is a great idea. However, my quick scan of the support issues don't indicate that a new version would actually reduce the number of problems. I thought that most of the new stuff relates to new features, rather than at addressing the common problems people see. I'm happy to help knock up a new release if I'm wrong though. Certainly, any new talent could help to address such issues for a future release. I have been playing a little more with the new OCR code and Outlook. Sadly, I'm not seeing much of a reduction in image spam. My experience is currently that ocrad is doing a poor job of extracting the text in these spams (even with many options tweaked), but that gocr (as used by SpamAssassin) does a much better job. I haven't managed to run the tests with this new code yet though. The absence of any real interest from others on spambayes-dev doesn't help my motiviation levels, so that is yet another good reason to try and get more windows developers on board :) Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ spambayes-dev mailing list spambayes-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes-dev
