Fighting bogus news spam

[Sven Hoexter]

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:10:51PM +0200, Tomaž Šolc wrote:

Hi,

> I've been using Bogofilter for some time now and it has been working
> great, only occasionally letting through one out of couple of hundred
> spam mails I get per day.
> 
> Recently however I've been getting around 20 mails per day that contain
> a short bogus news item in the subject and body. These beat bogofilter
> with ease since they do not contain any of the usual spam keywords. Also
> every mail seems to be different, so they also resist new bogofilter
> training.

I currently see some of them in my unsure folder with a 0.9x rating. Until
now I just continue to feed them as usual but if those mail will continue
to be propagated on larger scale one might thing about it again.

AFAIR there were some waves with quotes from classical literature to poison
statitical filters in the past but so far bogofilter was able to cope with
it for me. At least I don't receive daily newsletters with such stuff.

Maybe backup your DB file and just feed the stuff to find out if it works
or not.

Sven
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