Re: spam jibberish

From: Jem Berkes (jb_at_users.pc9.org)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: 27 May 2004 04:16:17 GMT

> The point is to try to get past filtering techniques that rely on word
> frequency in spam vs. non-spam, particularly Bayesian filtering. By
> plucking random dictionary words, they hope to load-up their spam with
> words that have low "spam" scores.

And by the way, from my own experience it doesn't work :) Both spamprobe
and CRM114 are not fooled by this sort of thing. These useless word
combinations just don't score worth anything in the analysis of spam. 

-- 
Jem Berkes
http://www.sysdesign.ca/

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