[clug] sec: unclassified - Spam decode assistance

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:15:54PM -0500, Mark Paine wrote:
> Unless it is ROT-13 (haven't tried), I would guess all the garbage words
> are there to confuse Baysian (sp?) filters and other spam filters.  ie
> specific keywords relating to spam as a percentage of all words is far
> lower than it would be than if the garbage words are not there.  Other
> than that, no idea.

I've recieved emails that contain only this but it occurs to me that that
may be because I show the text/plain part of the email in preference to the
text/html part.

Anyway, surely the solution is for baysian filters to ignore words its never
seen before. Note, I still have to setup a bayesian filter so maybe this
already happens.

-- 
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog at svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> (... have gone from d-i being barely usable even by its developers
> anywhere, to being about 20% done. Sweet. And the last 80% usually takes
> 20% of the time, too, right?) -- Anthony Towns, debian-devel-announce
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