spam with random words

[David Relson]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 21:06:45 +0100
Piotr KUCHARSKI <chopin at sgh.waw.pl> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 10:12:13AM +0000, T. Horsnell (tsh) wrote:
> > stream of random dictionary words thus:
> [...]
> 
> Your message was tagged
>      X-Bogosity: Yes, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.997873,
>      version=0.15.7
> 
> It would have landed in the spam folder, if not for an escape hook
> for this mailing list I had.
> 
> So I guess random words do not help the spammers.
> 
> p.

Piotr,

That's what we've been saying for a long time.  All the different
spellings for viagra are just more clues to make life easier for
bayesian filters like bogofilter.

I wish I could take credit for the idea, but guess I have to settle for
partial credit for a useful implementation.

Try scoring the message using "-vv" and again using "-vvv".  The first
will give you a histogram and the second will show exactly what tokens
bogofilter found and their associated scores.

David