Mark A. DeMichele wrote: > This is exactly what I was talking about in a previous post. > > If spammers start doing this and they make sure this bogus section is > larger than the actual spam section, the bayes filter will probably mark > it as ham. What's worst is if you then force the bayes filter to learn > this as spam, now you just increased the spam score for each of these > good words. If this happens over and over again, I would imagine that > the bayes filter would malfunction. At least that's my opinion, but > feel free to disagree. > > Thanks, > Mark DeMichele
I agree. We should contact Paul Graham, and ask him to suggest a new statistical filtering mechanism. This is really asking for artificial intelligence in both filters and spam. I guess that's the future. How bad does it need to get before people will realize our current email infrastructure needs a complete redesign?
