[Spambayes] [slightly OT] spammer 'random' words that are addressee-related?

[David Relson]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:56:38 -0600
Dave Hall wrote:

...[snip]...

Here're some numbers from my wordlist:

$grep -i saskatoon wordlist.txt
Saskatoon 0 2 20040114
saskatoon 6 2 20040701

The columns are token, spam count, ham count, date-last-registered.

I live in Michigan and Saskatoon is just another token for me.  Looks to
me like just another token that can appear in spam (and ham).

> This word would typically be a strong indication of non-spam in my
> corpus. Something to note is the capitalization, all lower case (like
> all the other random words in this message).  The normal spelling is
> capitalized although I correspond with a few people who have not
> mastered the art of the caps- lock key.

David