[Spambayes] Unwanted stock solicitations

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    Calvin> I've been getting lots of supposed scoops on cheap stocks (19
    Calvin> cents) which are supposed to skyrocket tomorrow. Spambayes had
    Calvin> not been able to filter these out although it has done wonders
    Calvin> with Viagra, cheap drugs, etc. So I decided to reconfigure the
    Calvin> software by accumlating hundreds of Emails with this cheap stock
    Calvin> junk included. After retraining, it has still not been able to
    Calvin> detect the junk stock emails. Any suggestions?
 
You don't mention your platform.  You might want to try the 1.1a3
release:

    https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61702&package_id=58141&release_id=442102

It includes code to extract text from image spam such as the pump-n-dump
stock spams.

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