Shaun Savage wrote:
> I don't look at mush spam, but this caught my eye. Not the spam but
> the why it is hidden inside HTML.
Yeah, they've been doing that for a couple of months now. It is clearly
aimed at frustrating word-based spam recognition.
In a similar time span, my Mozilla Bayesian spam filter's effectiveness
has dropped like a rock, now recognizing only about 50% of spam.
Question: is it the case that Mozilla Bayesian spam filtering is done
only on the raw message text? Or do they do word analysis on rendered
HTML as well? For that matter, where is the documentation on what it is
analyzing? I can't find it.
More broadly: does the community believe that spam has become so bad
that it can be considered a security problem?
Thanks,
Crispin
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