[SLE] OT - SA defeating thesauri

From: Nick Selby (ns_at_nickselby.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:51:44 +0100

    Hi,
    It seems that the latest spate of spam is loaded with seemingly arbitrary
    words to defeat the Baysian processes of SpamAssassin, such as

    "thayer earsplitting fatal scatterbrain landfill circumstance configuration
     dowling system smokescreen incompletion oscillatory burgeon boorish mallow
    repudiate elysee bermuda cohort upbring unix bitnet depressive enigma"

    I guess that they're doing this to increase the message size with un-spamlike
    words to decrease the ratio of spam-like words to non-spam-like words? Does
    this sound right? Anyone heard of this and/or have a sense of how to defeat
    this strategy with current available configurable settings on SA? Spastic?
    Anything?

    TIA 

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