From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@mbligh.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Spam, bogofilter, etc
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 08:24:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45212F39.5000307@mbligh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159802486.4067.140.camel@mindpipe>
Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:03 +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>> I do think that Markov Chains combined with Bayes Statistics
>> might do a wee bit better. (Except with very short emails.)
>> However all that these things are able to do is essentially
>> grow the key database when spammers are producing new mutated
>> (mis-spelled) texts by mixing in spaces, punctuations, and even
>> occasional characters.
>>
>> For recognizing those pill merchants one needs complex software
>> to read the site at the URL, and to read texts out of the IMAGES
>> at the site. Captcha to get thru spam filters...
>>
>
> Could a heuristic be added to reject messages with wildly incorrect
> dates? I notice that the last 5-10 messages in my LKML folder every
> morning are spam with a date that's ~24 hours in the future.
If you got rid of "slut" and "schoolgirl" that'd get rid of half of it.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-29 14:23 Spam, bogofilter, etc Lee Revell
2006-09-29 14:29 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-01 23:23 ` Chris Wedgwood
2006-10-02 0:41 ` Kasper Sandberg
2006-10-02 10:03 ` Matti Aarnio
2006-10-02 15:21 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 15:24 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2006-10-02 15:48 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-02 17:39 ` Erik Andersen
2006-10-03 3:37 ` dean gaudet
2006-10-03 4:05 ` Neil Brown
2006-10-02 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-02 17:19 ` David Lang
2006-10-02 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 18:07 ` Martin Bligh
2006-10-02 18:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-10-02 18:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-02 19:31 ` jdow
2006-10-02 19:31 ` Antonio Vargas
2006-10-02 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2006-10-04 22:41 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-10-03 17:32 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-02 21:33 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-10-03 8:08 ` John Graham-Cumming
2006-10-03 8:52 ` Howard Chu
2006-10-03 9:40 ` Devdas Bhagat
2006-10-03 9:43 ` Helge Hafting
2006-10-03 10:50 ` Gordon Cormack
2006-10-02 17:34 ` Thomas Davis
2006-10-03 16:42 ` Mariusz Kozlowski
2006-10-27 22:30 ` Oleg Verych
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-03 6:08 Paul Zimmerman
2006-10-03 12:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
[not found] <20061003060346.55869.qmail@web80821.mail.yahoo.com>
2006-10-03 7:01 ` Neil Brown
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