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
