RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for a test...

[John Tolmachoff]

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But it is a good idea.   John Tolmachoff MCSE, CSSA IT Manager, Network Engineer RelianceSoft, Inc. Fullerton, CA  92835 www.reliancesoft.com   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Baker | Netsmith Inc Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 7:42 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for a test...   Or basically a series of at least 3? WORD characters ( A-Za-z0-9 ) seperated by a single non-word character (anything other than A-Za-z0-9) This would catch all forms of spacing P O R N P.O.R.N. P!O!R!N   From what i've seen, spammers typically put no more than 1 "extra" character between each letter. This would not trigger a bunch of !!!!!, etc, etc, but would trigger all forms of acronyms which are spaced out using anything between the letters.   A side effect would be those spacing people put within virus names to make it around filters.... but thats kind of the intent of the filter I guess.   My only guess is something like this might start getting cpu intensive because its basically a form of an expression.   -Tom   -----Original Message----- From: Kami Razvan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 6:47 AM To: JunkMail List Subject: [Declude.JunkMail] Idea for a test... Hi;   As we all know the spammers insert special characters in the middle of subject words to bypass the filters, e.g. P/O/R/N, or all sort of other variations.   Can a test we devised, similar to the COMMENT test that counts the number of special characters or detect similar characters appearing in the middle of words.   I guess one way to approach this is to first count if there are more than 1 or 2 special characters and if yes then determine if they are followed by text.   This could be a weight test.   Just an idea...   Regards, Kami