Re: Spam from compromised accounts scoring just under block threshold

2018-03-30 Thread Amir Caspi
Following up on this... I've been consistently seeing a lot of spam like this, with multi-dot usernames. Sometimes with "person.from.spam" but more often just a punctuated phrase like "some.spammy.item.sold" or whatever. Most often only two dots (three words), sometimes four or more. Has

Bayes and hyphens

2018-03-30 Thread Amir Caspi
Hi all, Does Bayes tokenize on word boundaries and hence would ignore hyphens? Or does it include them? I've seen a lot of spam lately inserting random hyphens between key spammy words (like "economic-crisis"), presumably in an attempt to bypass word filters and/or Bayes. So would

Re: Lots of money, score of 0??

2018-03-30 Thread RW
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 08:50:48 -0700 (PDT) John Hardin wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2018, RW wrote: > > > The rule is matching on "$10.99 o" and "£1.70 2 6" respectively. > > Sadly that's kind of unavoidable given spammer obfuscation and the > fact that cultures differ on what character to use for