Just saw a new spam tactic

[Zack Brown]

Has anyone done any benchmarks comparing the anti-HTML version of
bogofilter with earlier versions? One of bogofilter's strengths is its
small impact on the overall system.

Be well,
Zack

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 12:08:11AM -0800, Chris Wilkes wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:40:28PM -0800, Max Rible wrote:
> > I just got a piece of spam that's full of bogus HTML tags-- lots
> > of </k> tags inserted in the middle of words.  The tags will be 
> > ignored by most HTML renderers, but will break up the text for
> > spam parsing.
> 
> Could you post what version of bogofilter you're using?  The latest one
> does include code to through out HTML comments like this:
>   to<!-- -->ner cart<!-- -->ridge
> and give you what you would see in a browser, mainly:
>   toner cartridge
> 
> I'm not sure about bogus HTML tags though.  It would be nice to get some
> sort of number representing how poorly writen an HTML page is.
> 
> Chris
> 
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Zack Brown