Subject: Re: Spam
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 03:08:11 -0600
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <KKidnXWZTMBmD5LdXTWc-w@speakeasy.net>
Tage Stabell-Kul� <task@ifi.uit.no> wrote:
+---------------
| Cloudmark works on the assumption that the body of spam is identical
| for all users.  As long as it is, the approach will work if you have a
| large enough user community.
+---------------

Unfortunately, that assumption stopped being true about 3-4 years ago.
Spammers started putting in per-message random junk, which blows Cloudmark,
DCC, and other similar schemes completely out of the water. (*sigh*)


-Rob

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