[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Will> We've been using spambayes at our company for years now, but of > Will> late almost all the spam that gets through is image spam, and its > Will> volume is increasing rapidly. (See New York Times article, > Will> December 6, 2006 "Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver > Will> Itself", by Brad Stone. > Will> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/technology/06spam.html) > > Will> Can anyone say when will there be an official release that does > Will> something about it? > > I suppose I should answer this. There were some people testing the OCR > stuff on Windows. I got a raft of bug reports about Unix-centric problems > in the code. Since I fixed them I've heard nothing. I don't know if that's > good or bad. On the one hand it works well for me. On the other hand I've > had no real feedback on the effectiveness of the recent additions > (especially the OCR stuff) from other people.
I've got the OCR stuff enabled on Unix. It definitely works some of the time; in X-SpamBayes-Evidence I can see spam words picked out of the image that don't appear elsewhere in the message. There is a category of those stock advertisements that seems to be getting past the OCR completely; one example is enclosed. I wish I knew what to do to get around that problem.
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-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com
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