Test with different lexers
Richard Kimber
rkimber at ntlworld.com
Wed Dec 3 17:48:04 CET 2003
On 03 Dec 2003 08:41:03 -0500
Tom Anderson <tanderso at oac-design.com> wrote:
> If you often emphasize phrases or you often end a sentence with the same
> word, then including that leading or trailing punctuation can still be
> useful. Maybe "word." will have a higher spamicity than "word". This
> may especially be true of "free!" or "$10!". If we can distinguish
> between "madam," or "madam:" and "madam", it will likely be important.
> For a real world example, I just received a spam titled "*National
> Attention as an Innovator*", so "*National" and "Innovator*" with the
> asterisks included may be much stronger spam indicators than without the
> asterisks.
FWIW, as a non-expert, non-developing, user, what Tom's saying sounds
right to me.
-Richard.
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Richard Kimber
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