Re: consistant failures on a new kind of spam

Anthony Campbell <ac-MeA/[email protected]> Wed, 8 Nov 2006 16:32:22 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.mail.spam.spamprobe.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 31 Oct 2006, Brian Burton wrote:
> Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected] wrote:
> > On 08/03, Darxus-5+gNnNaL/BD/[email protected] wrote:
> >>I've started getting spams that I can easily identify by appearance,
> >>and spamprobe has flagged them *all* as good, even though I've retrained
> >>it on each one as it has come in.
> > 
> > I haven't found a solution to this with spamprobe, but the author of CRM114
> > says it always catches these.  My *guess* is that the primary difference is
> > in the tokenizing.  
> 
> If you give CRM113 a try please let me know how well it works in real 
> life as opposed to what the author reports.
> 
> Most likely you are describing an image spam with technical jargon as 
> text.  I think SP's image tokenization needs improvement to catch these.
> 
> Thanks,
> ++Brian
> 
> 

Like everyone else, it seems, I'm getting a lot of these too and only a
few are caught. If they become more frequent it will be quite a
nuisance. I can't find anything on Google about crm113 but I have found
a crm114 at http://crm114.sourceforge.net/.  Is this a good one to try?

Anthony

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