Jon Udell has been using SpamAssassin and SpamBayes to protect himself from email detritus, but he wants it to be smarter: More pleasant surprises, please
“Thanks to the SpamBayes plug-in, my e-mail client does a great job of learning which messages I do or don’t want to see. But it should do so much more! My work life is organized around groups and projects that form and evolve in fluid ways. E-mail folders and filters help me manage these activities. I want to be pleasantly surprised by software that notices when message patterns indicate the formation of a group or project, and volunteers to set up folders and filters for me. Likewise, I want to be pleasantly surprised by an RSS newsreader that notices how I save and organize items from my subscribed feeds. “As he points out, the same technology he is using for anti-spam measures could do the job – even Outlook 2003 is reputed to have some Bayes filtering capabilities – yet nobody if doing this right now to the best of our knowledge.