[spambayes-dev] An interesting email with interesting ramifications

[Tim Peters]

[Tim Stone]
> This scored a solid unsure for me, which is completely
> understandable... The pertinent text is:
>
> Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch sdtuy at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't
> mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt
> tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The
> rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
> Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
> but the wrod as a wlohe.

What are the interesting ramifications?  I don't expect to see spam start to
take this up in a significant way (although I'm sure some will try for a
while), because spam's goal is to sell, not just to be comprehensible.  Some
low-rent spam uses rampant misspelling already, without much success against
us (the embedded URLs and the headers still paint them as spam).  *Your*
message scored like so for me:

Combined Score: 0% (4.06812e-005)
Internal ham score (*H*): 0.999935
Internal spam score (*S*): 1.66456e-005

thanks to the hammy "Hey! Tim Stone sent me a msg via spambayes-dev!" clues.