Re: Roster of members ...

>I suggest that we should have representation from:
>
>1) filter developers (commercial and open source)
>2) MUA developers
>3) MTA
>4) workgroup server developers (Microsoft, IBM, etc)
>5) otherwise smart people (not exclusive, hopefully other members fit this 
>as well!)

Hello everyone.  I believe I fit into categories 1, 2, and (hopefully) 5:

1.  I'm currently writing a content filtering system based on a collection of proprietary techniques.  I have the techniques working in "bench" form and am currently writing the "other 90%" portion to change it into something useable by a non-programmer.

2.  I've written three MUA's for environments somewhat different than what is currently in common use on the net.  (UUCP was the primary transfer mechinism in two of the three systems.)

5. I taught myself how to program back in the early 1970's.  I've been dabbling in various techniques to filter/classify email since I received my first undesired email message back in the early 1980's.  I first tried simple word/phrase rules and then branched into a wide range of quasi-statistical methods (including independantly discovering (and then discarding) what's currently called "Bayesian filtering" back in the mid-1980's).

In short, I'm a software designer/engineer, wana-be entrepreneur, with inventor tendencies...  <grin>

      ... JLS