Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> That was my first thought as well, but then you need to do it for each 
> drug or each word that might be "stuck-keyed". However, when I checked 
> my Bayes db, I found lots of words like these:
>
>> answeeeer
>> emaaaail
>> [...]

Yeah, but that's why Bayes works.  By trying to evade using ordinary
words, the spammer makes it only worse for themselves!  I think looking
for just the product words is enough.

> So... this would turn into a never-ending reactive "whack-a-mole" job.
> And, also, when looking at the original message, I noticed that the
> sender asked for a "generic" rule that did it.....

Sure, but nobody asked him to show the original spam.  It's kinda silly
to devote a lot of time writing rules without knowing more, starting
with whether the spam was missed at all.  Maybe it was missed, but was
he using Bayes?

Daniel

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