[clo-devel] Project proposal (Handling Spam (Was Payment Past Due, account))

Miles Egan miles at caddr.com
Mon Nov 17 16:40:03 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 06:54, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:23:56PM -0500, Anthony Ventimiglia wrote:
> 
> > Now back to the subject since we talked about it, I'd like to start a
> > project "cl-bayes" that will be a Bayesian Patter filtering library. 
> 
> Oops, sorry. I missed this in my first reply. ;)
> 
> I must echo the questions of Erik and Mario. 
> 
> Also, IMHO cl-bayes is really not quite kosher as far as names go:
> there are a zillion things a bayenesian filter can do, and a zillion
> ways it can be implementead. CL-BAYES and BAYES both suggests a
> certain naturality. How about some name that contains "bayes", but is
> not "it".

I wonder if it's really a good thing for clo admins to exercise this
much control over projects, including their names.  Perhaps it would be
better to just dispense names on a first come, first serve basis?  I'm
worried that this will come across as heavy handed.

-- 
Miles Egan <miles at caddr.com>
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