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Re: [Asrg] Meaningless words in spams

2004-02-16 06:16:41
Yangcheng HUANG wrote:
In some spam emails,there are meaningless/unrelated words at the end of the mails,like the following examples.
Does anyone know what these words mean?

It is possibly a technique to throw off hash-based filters, as Matt Schnedier said, if those words are different in every message of the spam run.

The other possibility is that they are there to throw off Bayesian filters. Currently, this technique is quite effective against Mozilla Mail. I'm strongly considering moving to something much more powerful because of this.

If this discussion continues, it should be moved to the filtering list.

Philip Miller

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