What to do with this kind of Spam?

[John McCain]

We talked about this a while back.  The effect will be that your database will 
develop a very large population of unique tokens.  Since a unique token will 
return a score of .415 (I believe), it will not affect the score of a message 
at all.  It will, however, fill your database up with trash information over 
time, but no one has really experienced a bloat or performance impact related 
to this.

My concern has recently become "good word poisoning", where they are including 
hammy words at the end of the message to defeat bayesian analysis.  My 
bogofilter performance has suffered a great deal lately due to these bayesian 
evasion tactics, so I've added Spamassassin.  

I think we're nearing the end of the phase where Bayesian analysis alone can 
win the spam battle.  The good thing is that Bayesian methods are forcing 
spammers to use easily identifiable evasion techniques.  Now it's our turn to 
adapt.


On Monday 14 July 2003 03:23 pm, Johannes Klug wrote:
> Hello Bogofilter - Mailing list.
> Recently I receive more and more emails cointaining weird strings of
> characters. Zsfslatfnsa for example.
> I attached a message that I got some minutes ago.
> Will adding this message to my bogofilter spam list do any good? Or will it
> spoil my list with these weird strings?
>
> Have a look for yourselves.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Johannes Klug