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Liudvikas Bukys writes:
>
>A related potential attack on learning filters is
>scraping of text that can be associated with the
>real interests of recipients.  Scraping could include
>both public sources (web), semi-public (discussion lists),
>and private sources (documents and emails found by viruses
>and worms).  Haven't seen it yet, it'll be a drag when
>it happens.

Yeah, we were discussing that just yesterday on IRC.  I reckon it'll take
a lot of sophistication by spammers before this is practical, and increase
their data storage costs quite a lot too.

- --j.
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