At 4:48 PM +0300 2/16/04, Eugene Crosser wrote:
On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:45, Matt Schneider wrote:
Yes, it's a "hash buster" to make each spam slightly different than each
other, so they can get around filters i.e. Brightmail.
- Matt
Also, the maningful but unrelated text, as I understand, is a way to get
through Bayesian filters...
This is quite amusing, as I just found your message, the one you are
replying to, and another reply to it in my Junk box because my
Bayesian filters gagged on the quoted garbage.
As has been stated here, content filters suck. However, auto-trained
Bayesian filters do well enough (provided one doesn't get too much
quoted spam...) to be the last line of defense for rough cut sorting
of mail into 'probably spam' and 'probably not spam' piles for the
user to pick through.
--
Bill Cole
bill(_at_)scconsult(_dot_)com
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