python spam filter: random words?

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On Sunday 10 August 2003 18:28, Ben Finney wrote:
> What I'm seeing now is spam with words taken straight from the "likely
> good" word lists of Bayesian filters :-)
>

this was recently discussed on the spambayes list (the nifty Python 
implementation of Paul Graham's ideas).

Apparently there are not enough uses of the word to make it statistically 
interesting so spambayes ignores it.  Or something like that.  See the thread 
there for full details.