Re: Weird spam

[Joe M. Oglesby]

Its a method to get past the filters by diluting the effectiveness of 
the statistical analysis the Bayesian filters do to correlate frequency 
or appearnce and associations with other words. It also reduces the 
long term effectiveness of the Bayesian filter by creating all the 
irrelevant associations among random words.

As for messages that have this in the subject but are devoid of any 
content, I think these are just mistakes on the spammer's part. I get a 
few of them where looking at the raw source does not reveal any hidden 
html code, images or "bugs" that report back. Or it may be an attempt 
to pollute the filter database before a subsequent spam attempt.

jmo

On Jan 25, 2004, at 1:03 PM, Bill McIntyre wrote:

Joe M. Oglesby wrote:

The list of unconnected, random words is used to try to "poison" or
corrupt the Bayesian filters used by most spam filter programs these
days.
Does that mean its a way to get through the filters? If so, to what
purpose?
Bill

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