Spammers catching on

[Zack Brown]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 03:45:35PM -0500, Gyepi SAM wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 12:36:09PM -0700, Matt Armstrong wrote:
> > It might also be possible to have pseudo-tokens in the "word"
> > database.  E.g. .html-font-same-foreground-as-background could be in
> > the database with a good and SPAM count.  Then it could count against
> > messages having that property.
> 
> The problem is making the determination that the colors are the same.
> Once we start adding rules like that, we begin to creep into static rules
> that could soon be rendered obsolete.
> 
> I would, however, be interested in a pre-processing tool that could determine
> that the two colors are the same and add the information to the email.
> Essentially the tool would analyze the message for certain properties,
> perhaps based on SpamAssassin (like) rules and encode the results
> as tokens in the message itself, perhaps in the header. Note that we would not be using
> SpamAssassin scores here, just names of possible spammy properties.

Why avoid spamassassin? If you need a wheel, use a wheel, right? If
spamassassin can be modified to be of more use to bogofilter, without
degrading its performance in other ways, I'm sure the spamassassin folks
would take patches.

Be well,
Zack

> 
> That could be very useful.
> 
> -Gyepi 
> 
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Zack Brown