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Re: Keep getting subborn spam with random words

2004-03-09 15:33:04

    >> fdhrtfkk ksfkgweg lsflsflnv and a lot more...............

    Jay> These are "zombies" - there are many variants, but they are
    Jay> designed to do one thing: confuse Bayesian filters.

In the Spambayes project this stuff is called "word salad".  (I doubt the
term originated with us.)  The one conclusion we've reached so far about it
is that it generally doesn't bother the accuracy of our classifier.

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