Re: Roster of members ...

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:29:45 -0800, Jesse Dougherty wrote:

>Maybe we could get things moving if we all identified ourselves and
>determined if we may want to invite some other stakeholders to make 
>sure we've got a representative sample.

I suppose I fall into two categories... 

I'm not exactly a filter developer, though I maintain an active interest 
in filter development and evaluation.  But what I have developed is an 
astonishingly effective method for optimizing classification accuracy 
for (any) rule-based classifier (spam filters being one special case of 
automatic classifiers).  

I guess I think I also fall into category 5.  I'm a scientist by 
training, and I get really excited whenever data is substituted for 
opinion.  (Those who were at or who saw last month's MIT conference may 
recall me as the fellow who began his talk by quoting Artemus Ward: "It 
ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's 
the things we do know that just ain't so.")

- Terry