bogofilter resistant email

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Fri Feb 13 23:46:52 CET 2004


On 13 Feb 2004 10:06:38 -0500
Tom Anderson wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 07:31, David Relson wrote:
> > With my wordlist and bogofilter's default parameters I get this
> > result: X-Bogosity: No, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.270366,
> > version=0.17.1
> 
> > Setting min_dev to my normal site value of 0.435, I get a result
> > similar to yours:
> > X-Bogosity: Unsure, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.500000,
> > version=0.17.1
> 
> In both of these instances, you're confirming my observation that this
> spam message will not be classified as spam.  Here's my histogram:

...[snip]...


> I don't think the spammishness of the low count words can compete. 
> And if I re-register enough times so that the ham words are more
> spammy, then I fear getting false positives.
> 
> Tom

Yep.  You've got a tough one there.  Based on the info bogofilter has,
the message isn't spam.  It's missing too many of the earmarks - no
mortgage rates, no "make it bigger", etc.

Curiosity prompts me to ask this:

what's the score for the headers (without the message body)?





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