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Message-ID: <400290EE.1060308@igor.franken.de>
From: gismo at igor.franken.de (Gismo C.)
Subject: spam with anti-bayesian parts

hi,

I just had a look at my latest spam, and wow, there are mails with 10-15 
lines of confuse sentence elements at the end. As it looks and google 
proved it is randomly taken from the net.

gismo


vogt@...senet.com wrote:
> To wind up the earlier thread I started when I thought it might have been a
> misbehaving worm:
> 
> The first spams with 2 lines of ad and 20 lines of random garbage words
> arrived in my mailbox yesterday, going cleanly through the bayesian filters.
> The explanations on this list are thus proven correct.
> 
> The filters DID give them a 70% spam probability based on bayesian
> filtering, so I figure it will be a matter of some training and they'll go
> away.
> 
> 
> What I'm wondering is:
> Why do the spammers even go to the length of using random words? Those are
> easy to filter out with some heuristics (e.g. missing punctuation). Why
> don't they grab some real text, say from a news site? There's an endless
> supply of new, proper text out there.
> 
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