14 Dec
2006
14 Dec
'06
12:10 a.m.
From: "Jay West" <jwest at classiccmp.org>
What concerns me is that 99% of the new spam making it through is vaguely
sensible english phrases (apparently automatically pulled from online books,
or from usenet post archives, etc.).
Yup...you're seeing what I suppose can be described as an technological
escalation in the spam war. The spammers have evolved, as we will have to
wait for the good guys to adapt.
I'm more of a dspam guy personally, but it's the same issue with
Spamassassin. That, and I've been working through the issues with
commercial spam removal vendors serving my Very Large Telco client. Bottom
line is that the spammers have found a weak point in the current
state-of-the-art spam detection technology and are beating on it for all
it's worth. They're not st00pid, alas.
Perhaps more insidious is I've noticed an increasing amount of non-sense
spam with no discernible (to me) purpose (no links or dead links, no message
or hook) other than to poison Bayesian corpus (corpi?). This does not bode
well.
Ken