The significance of word placement

Graham Wilson bob at decoy.wox.org
Fri Oct 25 14:22:49 CEST 2002


On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:
> Graham Wilson <bob at decoy.wox.org> wrote:
> >> Would it be significant if a word shows up in the header or even the
> >> subject, bogofilter would know better. I have virtually hundreds of
> >> those messages with that exact subject. None of which is ham.
> >
> >i think rather than making bogofilter recognize this, you should set up
> >some other filter (eg procmail) to filter out messages with 'Betreff' as
> >the subject. it could quarintine these messages to a folder and run it
> >throught bogofilter to add it to the spamfilter.
> 
> I already have this. It just does not learn it. The reason
> is that some brain-dead programs (mostly form MS) translate
> subject to Betreff and people attach an "original message".
> So the word alone is a hint that something is ham, just by
> the sheer amount of lusers.

do none of the words in german mark the message as spam?

--
gram




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