Ham or Spam? (was RE: [Spambayes] RE: Central Limit Theorem??!!
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Guido van Rossum
guido@python.org
Fri, 27 Sep 2002 11:17:52 -0400
> > Attached is the msg that produced those scores. To my eyes, it
> > doesn't look anything like c.l.py traffic (my ham) *or* like spam
> > -- it looks like a fishing newletter someone signed up for. My
> > best guess is that it's really ham, mistakenly filed as spam in
> > bruceg's collection. Whaddya think?
>
> > Return-Path: <warden@hotspotsporting.com>
> > Delivered-To: bfsmedia-bluegoose.kennels@bfsmedia.com
>
> Notice that this is the same envelope recipient that produced the other
> bewildering false positive (the dog show/TV one). I'm starting to think
> that perhaps Bruce filed all mail to this address as spam for some reason
> (expired account, perhaps).
I grepped the spam collection for bluegoose.kennels. It occurs a
*lot*, so I guess it was one of Bruce's bait addresses.
I've received lots of spams that try to look like legitimate
newsletters for some specialty topic.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)