[pmmail-list] [nospam] Ultra simple junk email filter

[Andrew Pitonyak]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:00:29 -0400, Ralph Cohen wrote:

>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 06:17:21 -0400, Steve Ewing wrote:
>
>It's interesting how spam has evolved over the past few years.  When I
>first started filtering spam, it was easy to search for particular
>words or phases that indicated they were spam.  Soon, however, spammers
>found ways to disguise a word without removing its meaning like f*ck or
>sh*t so a simple word filter wouldn't catch them.  Many spammers then
>moved to HTML spam mail and became creative in dodging filters by using
>code like FU<!--nonsense-->CK in their messages.  The <!--  --> codes
>are a pair of HTML tags used for hidden comments.  When viewed in an
>HTML viewer or browser, neither the tags nor anything between them are
>displayed so the letters on either side of the tag are joined together.

My Baysian filter pretty much junks anything that contains a lot of HTML tags as SPAM. Because it is a Byasian filter, it meanst that I did not 
intentionally cause this, the spammers did! I sure hope that it is doing a good job, because I filter about 60 e-mails each day to the spam 
bucket and I do not have time to verify each of them.... 

Andrew Pitonyak




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