Ha! Loser!

[Suzanne Skinner]

Okay, so I'm feeling a little smug :-)

I saw one of those spams come in today that uses HTML comments to break up
words. You know the type:

     Reverses ag<!--vGqtz-->ing while bur<!--vGqtz-->ning f<!--vGqtz-->at ...

Well, bogofilter caught it. Check out the bottom of the wordlist:

 82  eed                       0.00         2  0.999708  -8.13755  -0.00029
 83  incr                      0.00         2  0.999708  -8.13755  -0.00029
 84  ning                      0.00         2  0.999708  -8.13755  -0.00029
 85  ter                       0.00         2  0.999708  -8.13755  -0.00029
 86  vis                       0.00         2  0.999708  -8.13755  -0.00029
 87  jou                       0.00         3  0.999805  -8.54284  -0.00019
 88  china.com                 0.00         5  0.999883  -9.05354  -0.00012
 89  rm.html                   0.00         6  0.999903  -9.23582  -0.00010
 90  gland                     0.00         9  0.999935  -9.64123  -0.00006
 91  bui                       0.00        10  0.999942  -9.74658  -0.00006
 92  cts                       0.00        10  0.999942  -9.74658  -0.00006
 93  ght                       0.00        10  0.999942  -9.74658  -0.00006
 94  tion                      0.00        11  0.999947  -9.84188  -0.00005
 95  wei                       0.00        11  0.999947  -9.84188  -0.00005
 96  cle                       0.00        16  0.999963  -10.21655  -0.00004
 97  gua                       0.00        17  0.999966  -10.27717  -0.00003
 98  medi                      0.00        17  0.999966  -10.27717  -0.00003
 99  mory                      0.00        17  0.999966  -10.27717  -0.00003
100  xual                      0.00        17  0.999966  -10.27717  -0.00003
101  mus                       0.00        19  0.999969  -10.38839  -0.00003

Hooray for adaptive filters :-)

(Mind you, SpamAssassin does well also. Apparently the developers are onto
this little trick.)

Suzanne

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A Pope has a Water Cannon.                               It is a Water Cannon.
He fires Holy-Water from it.                        It is a Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses it.                                 It is a Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He Blesses the Hell out of it.          It is a Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
He has it pierced.                It is a Holey Wholly Holy Holy-Water Cannon.
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