Re: OT-spam detection, was Re: WM, and lindens rustled

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:mbzPb.97939$sv6.404211@attbi_s52...
> >correlate biography death peltry clan locutor booty revolution gossip
convention natural compressor consummate fecund conrail pathfind transcript
gila great slung <BR>
>   Surely any spam detector would trivially note that this word sequence
is,
> statistically, a very unusual English sentence.

Certainly mine does. (It uses a dictionary of known common e-mail words.
Most of those aren't in it.) But anything that only works on words (and not
on the relationships) will have trouble with such things, if the words are
valid. Which is why I don't think Bayesian filters work because of the words
(even though that how they are usually described), but rather because of the
HTML markup (which, often hides word lists like that).

              Randy.