interesting spammer tricks

[Przemyslaw Brojewski]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:25:12PM -0400, David Relson wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> I'm not sure exactly how good a foiler your message is.  The scoring
> results using _my_ wordlists are given below.  Of interest is that using
> my min_dev, robs, robx, etc the message parses with 11 hammish tokens
> and 16 spammish tokens, which puts the message squarely in the "Unsure"
> category (at 0.500000).  After using this message for spam training (and
> then rescoring it), the score goes to Spam 1.01e-5 (which means the
> score is 1.000000 - 1.01e-5, which is 0.999995 or so).
> 
> Once again, a spam trick that works the first time.  After training on
> the trick, bogofilter will nail it to the wall!!!
> 
> Time for a new, different spammer trick!
> 
It would be nice, if we could se how much scoring changed for
other messages in training corpus. Just for completness.

Przemek.