Spammers catching on

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Dec 17 13:19:28 CET 2002


Suzanne Skinner <tril at igs.net> writes:

> Here's another case of sneaky, bayesian-filter-evading spammers. This one,
> alas, was successful: it scored around 0.5 with Robinson-Fisher. Fortunately,
> my SpamAssassin backup (threshold 10.0) caught it with a whopping 29 point
> score.
>
> *********
>
> <HTML><FONT  COLOR=3D"#ffffff" BACK=3D"#ffffff">the story is sad and downtr=

Looks like we need to kill these sections when tokenizing -- or reject
mail with text/html parts right away.

Thanks for warning us, I'll put SpamAssassin back in place.

-- 
Matthias Andree




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