Re: Bayes underperforming, HTML entities?

[RW]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 23:30:42 +0000
RW wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 13:14:13 -0700
> Amir Caspi wrote:
> 
> 
> > If the HTML section is valid, as it appears to be ... then the HTML
> > should be decoded.  And yet, these emails are hitting BAYES_00 or
> > BAYES_05 despite the spammy HTML text.   
> 
> In the two examples there isn't really much in the html text. I think
> they probably get away with it by selling a wide range of innocuous
> sounding products with a terse low-key sales pitch.

I wonder if something could be made of this:

<p style="color:#fff; font-size:20pt; text-align:center; margin20px;">
&#x41;&#x6E;&#x74;&#x69;&#x67;&#x72;&#x61;&#x76;&#x69;&#x74;&#x79;&#x20;&#x48;&#x6F;&#x76;&#x65;&#x72;&#x20;&#x47;&#x6C;&#x6F;&#x62;&#x65;&#x20;&#x2D;&#x20;&#x53;&#x61;&#x76;&#x65;&#x20;&#x24;&#x32;&#x30;
</p> 

Unnecessary encoding is fairly common, but a long runs of ASCII
characters encoded like this seems extreme.