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From: guido@python.org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 13:58:14 -0400
Subject: [Spambayes] Deployment
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2002 10:53:24 PDT."
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> I wonder if the focus of spambayes ought not to be a classifier that
> leaves the fetching and feeding of messages to auxillary code? That
> way, it could be dropped into whatever harness that suited the
> user's situation.

I see no reason to restrict the project to developing the classifier
and leave the deployment to others.  Attempts at deployment in the
real world will surely provide additional feedback for the classifier.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
