Of course, whatever the approach, the images must be fetched, which often means letting the spammer know that you've received (and seemingly viewed) their message, which encourages more messages. If such a feature were to be added, it should be disabled by default.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vincent Zweije > Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Spambayes] Inspecting images (was: SpamBayes to > Handle EmbeddedImages) > > On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > || Other than a miraculous OCR feature showing up in > SpamBayes soon, I'm out > || of ideas for a simple way of managing this type of mail > on my home PC. > > Hmm... if anyone is going to work on this, do it the Bayesian way. > Don't try to recognise text, just recognize patterns in the image. > Just like spambayes doesn't understand language, just recognizes words > (and a little of their context). > > Would be a lovely research project, I'm sure. > > Say, how do those photocopy machines decide and refuse when a > bank note > is being copied? > > Ciao. > Vincent. > -- > > Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If you're flamed in a > group you > <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does > anybody get burnt?" > [Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul > Tomblin on a.s.r. > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes > Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/spambayes Check the FAQ before asking: http://spambayes.sf.net/faq.html
