Ways to trick the lexer

David Relson relson at osagesoftware.com
Sat Jun 9 01:24:04 CEST 2007


On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:50:09 -0400
Thomas Anderson wrote:

> As the others have basically said, something you may consider to be a
> cunning trick at first actually loses its effectiveness rather
> quickly. Just train on them.  Come back if they're still causing
> problems in a few days or weeks (depending on how many you get a day).
> 
> Tom

The cunning trick tends to be a one-time success.  After you train with
such a message, the next time "SEIX8UALLY" appears in a Subject line it
is known to bogofilter as spam.  I think of it as being a red flag
saying "look at me, I'm spam".

Regards,

David



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