Re: Spam problem

CRM114 (crm114.sf.net) is interesting. Though with the .gif trick spammers
are able to circumvent the statistical filters. I am quite confident that
this is a result of having HTML in emails. If it had been plaintext, it
would be a lot harder for the spammers.

On 10/29/06, Warren Henning <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 10/28/06, Scott G. Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > It is possible, thats what I do for sisc-devel.
> >
> >         Scott
>
> I'd like to take this opportunity to discuss the kind of spam the list
> has been receiving. If you looked at them rather than deleting them,
> you'd notice that they're basically legitimate but random words (not
> porn/whatever related) in a nonsense order, probably randomly
> generated with a simple trigram-type scheme. A lot of spam I get is
> random words like that and then an impossible-to-OCR GIF, usually
> about some penny stock or something.
>
> This got through my email client's (Gmail, Google's attempt at web
> mail) spam filter and I suspect it's because SpamAssassin heuristics
> and naive Bayes are too weak for the job.
>
> I think spam filter authors need to explore more sophisticated machine
> learning architectures/algorithms, such as support vector machines.
>
> Warren
>
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