On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 15:39, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Well, that was certainly an interesting post.
Although he didn't provide it, his web site is remarkably informative: http://www.nuclearelephant.com/projects/dspam/ > So, who's been having fun with their anti-spam tools recently? I'm still > using spamassassin and bogofilter [1] these days, but finding more and more > crap in my real inbox, thanks to all this random-text crap. Gar. I use bogofilter [only]. When the heap-of-random-dictionary-words technique cropped up, I was really worried - it seemed a good workaround. For a while I started getting 15-20% false negatives. I thought I'd have to ditch and go to a full blown SpamAssassin or whatever setup, but I faithfully kept training for a week or two, and suddenly, my false negatives are right back down to 1-2 per 1000. My guess [this is entirely unscientific] is that it backfired on them. The dictionary is relatively big, but the set of words commonly used is *really* small in comparison. Because they use words that I and my correspondents *never* use, the score on uncommon words (take "lanthanide" and "dispensary". Who are they kidding?) goes up, and they become clear markers for spam. [I wonder how many people are spam blocking this thread? :)] AfC -- Andrew Frederick Cowie Operational Dynamics Consulting Pty Ltd Australia: +61 2 9977 6866 North America: +1 646 472 5054 http://www.operationaldynamics.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
