[Spambayes] Latest spammer trick stymied

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Mon Mar 31 19:59:56 EST 2003


[Tim Stone]
> Speaking for myself, of course...
>
> We currently do not provide a token for the *presence* of a url.

We already generate one of

    proto:http
    proto:https
    proto:ftp

depending on what's approrpriate.

> I'm not sure if this would have pushed it toward spamminess or not, but it
> bears researching.

Look in your database for the spamprob on 'proto:http'.  My bet is that it's
near neutral; it's reasonable to expect that a "found a URL" token would
have the same spamprob.




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