multiple types of spam

[David Relson]

At 08:41 AM 7/3/03, 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.

Dave,

FWIW, I have a v2v3 script that runs bogofilter with "-vv" and 
"-vvv".  Using verbose levels 2 and 3 gives me the details of how many 
tokens have high/low scores and what those scores are.  Doing that will 
help you understand why bogofilter considers them ham, when you don't.

David