On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Raquel Rice wrote: > > That would be my guess. We are now fully into the part of the > > 'game' where the spammers get hold of spamassassin and run their > > spew through it*before* trying to mail it, so that they can try > > 'tricks' like these, and keep trying different ones until > > something works. > The problem with your theory, is that your bayes hasn't been trained > the way mine has, nor has mine been trained the way that Matt's has. > The likelihood of any given spam getting past two of us, let alone > all three of us, is very slim indeed.
Unless, of course, you are an ISP, with limited resources, who can't run Bayes Databases per user, and with such a diverse user base that site-wide Bayes database might not be a good thing..... :-( Still, my theory is still not that bad, even with a properly trained Bayes, because the spammer needs to defeat the rule checks anyways.... - C
