What to do with this kind of Spam?

John McCain jmccain at layer3al.com
Tue Jul 15 02:20:40 CEST 2003


On Monday 14 July 2003 05:33 pm, michael at optusnet.com.au wrote:

> Sorry, I don't belive that at all. 

Believe what?  That we need to adapt or that I'm having problems with 
Bogofilter?

> The problem is that Bogofilter
> currently discards the information that's needed to deal with this
> type of attack. Even just scoring token pairs rather than single tokens
> is probably enough to defeat this style of attack.
>

How so?  If the tokens are garbage tokens, and thus unique, the likelihood of 
seeing two back to back in a message is astronomically smaller than seeing a 
repeat of a single.

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