Re: spamprobe-1.3x2 released

Now THIS is a feature !
This last month or 2 I've been blasted with these stock-tip spams ... that 
spamprobe just cant figure out.
Entirely empty email except an embedded GIF, different From and IP's every 
time.  Sometimes 4+ a day !

I just installed this new version ... is there anything I need to do to 
enable the GIF stuff ? configure found the library fine and it built fine, 
but I see nothing in the README.txt file about any comannd options or 
whatever to enable it ... so I'm assumeing "it just works".

How can I tell if its working ? (besides less GIF spam ...)

-David




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> I've just released another experimental spamprobe snapshot.  This one
> adds a feature suggested by Nico to help combat wordless spams.  If
> configure finds a working libungif and gif_lib.h on your system then
> spamprobe will use that library to extract useful terms from gif
> attachments in emails.
>
> The goal is to add extra terms for use by the scoring algorithm in
> emails that don't have many other terms to work with.  I've experimented
> with it here some and the gif related terms become pretty spammy but not
> completely damning.  That's good since it means the terms will be useful
> when there isn't a lot of content but won't condemn otherwise innocent
> emails just because they have a gif attached.
>
> I didn't really want to add a dependency to other packages but in this
> case spamprobe should continue to work as it always have if you don't
> have libungif so it's not really a dependency. :-)
>
> If this gif analysis feature works out well I can add support for other
> image formats in the future.  In my own experience all of the wordless
> image spams use gif so that seemed like the best place to start.
>
> I've also done some more reorganization of the source code and added a
> - -f command line option to let the user specify a particular config file
> to be used.
>
> If anyone has any problems compiling this version please let me know.
> I've tried it on three different linux systems and Mac OS X 10.4 but
> there could be problems with other OS's.
>
> All the best,
> ++Brian
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