[spambayes-dev] siickkk and deprrravved stufff totallly grossssse

[Glenn Brown]

I fear my email box is seeing a reliable Spam attack on Bayesian filters,
starting in the past week: the tweaking of spam tokens by repeating
characters.

If spammers use 0-3 repetitions of each letter, a spam token like
"investment" can be spelled 4^10 (a million) different ways.  I don't want
to suffer a million spam messages to train my filter for this one word.

 

A simple solution would be to eliminate character repetitions in the spam
database.  This produces 163 ambiguities out of the 25143 words in the
Solaris /usr/dict/words list of words in the English language, but probably
none of these are spam tokens.  I've appended a list of the ambiguous tokens
below.  For example, "be" represents "be" and "bee".

 

I won't be implementing adding this feature myself, but would sure like to
see this feature in my favorite spam filter.

 

Cheers to all the SpamBayes developers,

--Glenn

 

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