From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Xavier Leroy <xavier.leroy@inria.fr>, caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] posting policy and spam
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:23:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040104102340.GA1795@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103232837.GA20552@iliana>
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 12:28:37AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:24:49AM +0100, Xavier Leroy wrote:
> > There have been several complains recently about spam getting through
> > the caml-list.
> >
> > For your information, the list is filtered through SpamOracle, and the
> > posting address receives several hundred spams a day. Due to spammers
> > getting more clever, the efficiency of the filtering went from perfect
> > to about 99%. That's enough to let significant amounts of spam slip
> > through.
>
> Well, on a similar subject, is there any chance of implementing a
> workaround in spamoracle to counter those spams specifically designed to
> fool the bayesian filters ? You know, those who have 4 lines of random
> words in a text attachement, and then some html spam.
>
> I don't know if the bayesian filters or a modification thereof is able
> to counter this kind of email, but i don't think so.
n-grams should be able to cope with the random words. There is already
at least one library at sf implementing them so I am not sure it is
worth to reimplement it in spamoracle.
Richard
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 9:24 Xavier Leroy
2004-01-03 11:37 ` Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
2004-01-03 13:34 ` Xavier Leroy
2004-01-03 23:28 ` Sven Luther
2004-01-04 10:23 ` Richard Zidlicky [this message]
2004-01-04 16:22 ` Scott Alexander
2004-01-04 13:40 ` Vitaly Lugovsky
2004-01-04 15:43 ` Damien Doligez
2004-01-03 12:20 Claudio Sacerdoti Coen
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