John Sequeira

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John Sequeira's weblog: enterprise application development, typed weakly.

Wednesday, January 08, 2003


Make you @#@$ larger! cvcxvcxvddfsk [sic]

I'm getting a lot of spam with a sequence of random characters in the subject line or in the body of the message. It seems like an obvious attempt to throw off checksums. How hard would it be to apply a pronouncability metric to subject line words?

Also, my MozillaMail bayesian filter has just become trained enough to make guesses at what messages are spam. It's doing pretty well, but I can see where a normal business user who receives sales pitches as part of their job would be in trouble.
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Follow-up: Mozilla antispam

Apparently the Mozilla spam filter is bayesian. I'll give it a shot.
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