[Spambayes] Spammer countermeasures against bayesian filters
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Tue Jul 29 17:48:27 EDT 2003
Mike> I have noticed recent spam has a long list of presumably ham-like
Mike> rare words appended to it. Do you believe that this is a Bayes
Mike> filter countermeasure?
Maybe. I haven't seen this as a problem. I suspect Spambayes is doing an
effective job suppressing these for me.
Mike> If so is the countercountermeasure a tweak that looks at the
Mike> number of times the word has appeared?
This was tried during testing and found not to be effective.
Skip
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