On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 23:36 +1000, Nicholas Tomlin wrote:
> Hell sluggers,
>
> I�ve noticed the amount of mail bypassing the filters seems to be increasing
> and would like to venture an idea...
>
> Most of the mails that get through are misspelt to put the filter off the
> track.
>
> eg,
>
> Some that got through:
> {
> Ur Diicky Is So Smaall horsemeat digenesis
> Darlin how good to see you! :)
> }
> How can we get a spam filter to check for misspelt words and reject the mail
> on that basis?
I thought about this a while ago. It would be relatively easy to
implement -- just hook aspell into a procmail rule. I eventually came to
two conclusions:
1. I would lose a lot of important (though difficult to read) mail this
way.
2. For any significant misspellings of words, bogofilter will already
look for them.
But I've not actually done the experiment. You should try it out and see
if it actually helps. It'd be a great way of teaching your friends and
family to spell :)
If you want to give it a go, I'm sure someone on the list could help you
with procmail magic
James.
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