Re: pdf spams

David A. Lee wrote:
> I'm also on the ASSP mailing list and it constantly amazes me how much 
> effort those guys put into hacking solutions to individual spam types. 
> There must be a dozen posts a day about some new Regex to use to catch this 
> or that kind of spam ...  I just dont get it ... the baysean filters in both 
> SP and ASSP learn to catch the spam after a little while, and in the longer 
> run it changes anyway ... so why put all that effort into one variant ... 
> they must just be doing it for fun ...

Yeah, I'm way too busy to maintain a "normal" spam filter. :-)  Paul
Graham described the morbid fun he had for a while maintaining rules
by hand before he switched to bayesian.

I guess some people like the challenge.  Kind of like climbing a
mountain when there are perfectly good helicopters available. :-)

All the best,
++Brian

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