Dealing with wordlist mails

Greg Louis glouis at dynamicro.on.ca
Wed Jan 28 14:49:34 CET 2004


On 20040128 (Wed) at 1855:20 +0530, Manvendra Bhangui wrote:
> So, can ratio of unknown words to known words can be taken as a sign
> of spam? Is it possible to assign a higher robx if this ratio
> exceeds a number say 0.8 ?
> 
> I will make a small change in my bogofilter and start logging
> the ratio  (unknown_words /(unknown_words + known_words) for 
> each and every mail which comes to my domain (sifycorp.com). Then
> I will see if statistics prove anything.

That will be a very interesting result.  I look forward to your report!

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