multiple types of spam

[John McCain]

419 letters tend to be quite long for current generation spam.  Maybe there's 
an issue with your training corpus size.  How large is your training corpus?

On Thursday 03 July 2003 07:41 am, Dave Lovelace wrote:
> David Relson wrote, in part:
> > I haven't been keeping close track on Nigerian scam messages.  I know
> > that bogofilter is catching some and missing some.  It _would_ make an
> > interesting experiment to create wordlists to see if that's detectable.
>
> At times I seem to get at least one or two a day, & bogofilter never
> seems to catch them.  I retrain with them, but I can't help wondering
> what it is that enables them to get through so consistently.
>
> I admit, they aren't cookie-cutter jobs like so much spam, though.