Wanting a pre-db4 bogofilter

Matthias Andree matthias.andree at gmx.de
Tue Mar 8 01:07:19 CET 2005


"Eric Wood" <eric at interplas.com> writes:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Matthias Andree"
>> ad 2) I see an increase in spam that consists only of a header and
>> perhaps a link, which usually scores as unsure here.
>
>
> Can we develop a way where these url domains are set to trigger it as spam. 
> bogofilter would know this by way of another utility that runs amungst 
> bogofilter users that manual put in the offending domain name with a 
> expiration time.

This is pretty much away from the way bogofilter works, although I'd
also considered a setup where bogofilter would only look at certain
headers; when I last tried it, it was *very* sensitive to proper (sort
of uniform) training for both ham and spam.

> That way if I get a mail from jjgddf.com (which is random crap), then others 
> won't get the mail if they've subscribed to this service.  Yes, it has 
> basically came back to keyword filtering.

It's easier to use real (site-wide) blacklists for such mail.

> Also, a very new kind of spam I see is the creatation of a table with many 
> cells.  Then they put word fragments in each cell, valign="top" and "bottom" 
> some cells, and it forms a completely readable and lined up spam message 
> that bogofilter and my keyword filter couldn't have caught.

I was under the impression that HTML tag removal was supposed to take
care of this, but I have neither written nor looked at the HTML tag
handling code.

-- 
Matthias Andree
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