[Spambayes] imagination

[Tim Stone]

On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:58:48 +0200, Didier Morandi 
<didier.morandi at freesurf.fr> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Look at that one...

This spammer has a rudimentary understanding of the type of filtering 
technology that includes Spambayes.  Essentially, he has attempted to 
evade the filter by intentionally misspelling words.  This technique, 
while sometimes effective at evading filters, is probably not very 
effective with recipients.  In order for a spammer to succeed, he must 
have responses to the spam to justify both his techniques and his 
existence.  It is relatively clear that this type of spam gets an 
unacceptably low response rate.  If it didn't, then virtually all spam 
would employ these techniques.

However, should by some turn of events, this technique come into 
widespread use AND become particularly effective at evading our filter (a 
highly unlikely scenario), then we will modify our program to account for 
it.  We already have several ideas as to how this could be done, but have 
not included them in the current system because to date the problems they 
solve have not been deemed significant enough to warrant the effort of 
modifying the system.

Thank you for your continued interest in our program... are you still 
considering helping us with a French translation?


-- 
Tim Stone