Frank Mitchell sez: >I suspect these are intended to overload programs which work like >SpamSieve with "millions" of random 'good' words. If there are enough of >them they could eventually render SS ineffective. Your experience seems >to confirm this. > >For this reason, I simply delete such random word messages rather than do >a "Mark as Spam". > >That's my theory anyway 8^)
That was my theory, too. I went to the SpamSieve website and checked forums, and the general consensus there was to continue to mark even these kinds of messages as spam. So I have. On the plus side, more messages like that get caught by SpamSieve. On the minus side there are so many of them, I don't think I notice a difference until I do actual counts. :) I'll bite the bullet and begin saving up spam messages soon and then remake SpamSieve's corpus. It should take about 9-10 days for me to get 1000 spams to index. Ugh. Now, if I could only find a way to automatically trash all the political mail my father sends to me but save his good messages. :) -- Michael Lewis Off Balance Productions [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.offbalance.com
