[spambayes-dev] Native Outlook 2003 spam filtering
Justin Mason
jm at jmason.org
Sun Nov 16 03:05:37 EST 2003
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Tim Peters writes:
> Some geeks with too much time on their hands reverse-engineered huge parts
> of OL2003's secret spam gimmicks, and wrote a detailed account:
>
> http://www.mapilab.com/articles/outlook_spam_filter.html
>
> As always, the first release of a thing from MS is so bizarre that
> competitors are lulled into laughing MS off. For example, the dictionary of
> words and word weights is fixed: it doesn't learn, and it's the same for
> all users. So, if you're a spammer, you just mail your spam to your own
> OL2K+3, and fiddle it until the filter likes it. Then all OL3K-997
> installations will like it.
Bizarre! *Great* article, though. Thanks for the pointer!
(PS: I like link 8 on Appendix B ;)
- --j.
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