I am not finding problems from image spam, either. SpamBayes seems to do a reasonable job of identifying it. Like any spam, however, you have to train SpamBayes, so the first few from a new source will require training, but by then, it is able to do a good job of getting rid of it.
Peter Bishop -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Hely Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Spambayes] A fix for image spam??? As a long-time SpamBayes user who finds that SpamBayes seems to be relatively helpless against image spam, I'm looking for informed comment on the following, received from Sunbelt Software: Start Quote Does your Antispam solution catch Image Spam? Ninja Does! Rather than using possibly unpredictable heuristics or computationally expensive optical character recognition, Ninja uses fingerprinting algorithms that generate identities from a single piece of content. Leveraging the power of the Cloudmark engine, fingerprinting algorithms offer the most efficient and robust Image Spam protection to date! Stop Image Spam today, with this free 30 day Messaging Ninja for Exchange trial: http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja-Download.cf m End Quote Can SpamBayes ever conquer image spam to ant substantial degree? TIA - Bill -- We take security very seriously. All outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. To boost YOUR security visit The Hacker's Nightmare: http://HackersNightmare.com "How to keep hackers, worms and other germs out of your PC." Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.16.4/615 - Release Date: 3/01/2007 1:34 PM _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
