Katz, Amir wrote ..
> Interesting read, linked from dogg.com
>  
> http://becomingparanoid.com/2006/03/29/e-mail-security-detecting-spam-ii
> /

Excellent.

The more spammers try to be filtered out, the more their email will look like 
either total gibberish (and will miss its goal completely) or will become 
legitimate email (which will never happen).

By the way bayes filtering is even more efficient if most of your email is not 
in English. For example, my mother language is Dutch, and 90% of my email is in 
Dutch. So any email with English words in it, is either spam or a message from 
a mailing list that is already whitelisted trough another procmail rule.
Spammers seem to have learned that not everybody speaks English. I have seen 
Spanish, German, French, Russian and Chinese spam, but I think it'll be a long 
while before they get to a language with merely 25 million (?) native speakers.

-- 
Amedee Van Gasse
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