SPAM and procmail

Chris fj1200 at comcast.net
Wed Jan 14 15:37:55 EST 2004


Cole Tuininga wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 12:37, Chris wrote:
> > Lately I have noticed that the spammers are using random word generators in
> > both the subject and sometimes in the From:
> >
> > Here are a couple of examples
> >
> > Subject   perfidious behemoth doused o pk okbct rhy lc n
> >             bevel emancipate aerobacter
> > etc..............
>
> You're likely to see more of this.  It's an attempt to bypass bayesian
> style mail filters.  I'm not using one yet, so I don't know how
> successful this tactic is.  Irregardless, I'm still of the opinion that
> spammers are lower life forms than even SCO executives.
>

Unfortunately, the Bayesian filters don't filter these out too successfully....

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