Ways to trick the lexer

Tom Allison tom at tacocat.net
Sat Jun 9 01:28:20 CEST 2007


David Relson wrote:
> 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".
> 

Isn't this where the debate on esf and robx/robs comes into play where you can 
set tendencies for unknown tokens to be more spammy/hammy then the 0.500?



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