Re: [SLE] OT - SA defeating thesauri

From: Bruce Marshall (bmarsh_at_bmarsh.com)
Date: 12/31/03

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Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:15:05 -0500

    On Wed December 31 2003 09:51 am, Nick Selby wrote:
    > 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

    Well thank you!! I never could figure out why they were dumping all that
    crap into their messages. That's a good explanation. And yes, it is a
    regular occurrence here for the spam that does make it through. 

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