Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-26 Thread Theo Van Dinter
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:18:44AM -0500, Bill wrote: > Ok, if the image spams all have a different hash wouldn't that make the > Hash function built into Fuzzy OCR useless as well? I'm not sure I buy into > that thinking. The hash option in my Fuzzy OCR setup runs pretty well. I know nothing

Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-25 Thread Robert LeBlanc
Bill wrote: > Ok, if the image spams all have a different hash wouldn't that make the > Hash function built into Fuzzy OCR useless as well? I'm not sure I buy into > that thinking. The hash option in my Fuzzy OCR setup runs pretty well. No, the FuzzyOCR plugin's hash system isn't a checksum o

Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-25 Thread Bill
ecktenwald To: Bill ; users@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:06 AM Subject: Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:00:10AM -0500, Bill wrote: > Couldn't there be an RBL established ... that > maintained the hash of known spam

Re: New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-25 Thread Christian Recktenwald
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:00:10AM -0500, Bill wrote: > Couldn't there be an RBL established ... that > maintained the hash of known spam images and forego the wordlist detection? most image spam contains small differences (some flipped pixels, etc) so the hash function will return different r

New RBL idea regarding image spam

2006-10-25 Thread Bill
This may not be a new idea but wouldn't a new RBL based on image spam be worthy? I've been testing FuzzyOCR recently and although it seems to work it seems sort of "brute force". From what I understand it converts the images to a PPM or PNM format and then runs gocr over those images and attemp