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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:24:41 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
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Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
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Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:03 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>> I do think that Markov Chains combined with Bayes Statistics 
>> might do a wee bit better.  (Except with very short emails.)
>> However all that these things are able to do is essentially
>> grow the key database when spammers are producing new mutated
>> (mis-spelled) texts by mixing in spaces, punctuations, and even
>> occasional characters.
>>
>> For recognizing those pill merchants one needs complex software
>> to read the site at the URL, and to read texts out of the IMAGES
>> at the site.  Captcha to get thru spam filters...
>>
> 
> Could a heuristic be added to reject messages with wildly incorrect
> dates?  I notice that the last 5-10 messages in my LKML folder every
> morning are spam with a date that's ~24 hours in the future.

If you got rid of "slut" and "schoolgirl" that'd get rid of half of it.

M.
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