History
SpamAssassin was created by Justin Mason who had maintained a number of patches against an earlier program named filter.plx by Mark Jeftovic, which in turn was begun in August 1997. Mason rewrote all of Jeftovic's code from scratch and uploaded the resulting codebase to SourceForge.net on April 20, 2001. In summer 2004 the project became an Apache Software Foundation project and later officially renamed to Apache SpamAssassin. The project involved algorithms developed in part by Gary Robinson and others.
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