Bogofilter accuracy plummets starting around March 10, 2010
Dmitry
vdb at mail.ru
Tue Apr 13 02:23:47 CEST 2010
David Relson wrote:
> "Invisible headers" is not a term I recognize.
Headers like "To, cc, from, subject, date" -- are visible in almost all
MUA. Everything else is usually invisible. When you allow bogofilter to
process any invisible headers you pollute the database with random data
and make spam detection innacurate. Real spammer has 2 way to break spam
filter: 1. To make headers the same way as known mail user agents do; or
2) to make random headers in each message. So, in any case it makes more
harm than good from the viewpoint of spam detection.
1) You allow random data
> pipe your message through an appropriate "egrep -v "^(this|or|that):"
> command.
To send millions messages through pipe with egrep? No, thanks. It is
unnecessary load on the server.
--
Dmitry
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