spam with random words

[pgb at adelard.com]

On 12 Jan 2004 at 12:42, Boris 'pi' Piwinger wrote:

> No. Those random words will show up in many messages (good
> and bad), so they are only moved slightly to spammish. But
> that is the whole idea about statistics.
> 

Also some (most?) random words will be extremely unlikely for a given 
user context, e.g. words like "embroidery" so these will be a good 
indicator of spam if they are ever used again. 

Previously unseen random words will be ignored  if mindev is set to a 
suitable value (e.g. 0.15 to 0.2)

-- 
Peter Bishop 
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pgb at csr.city.ac.uk