[Spambayes] Spam in Images

[Les Desser]

In article <1f7befae0608011809rf7af374qf357c02b1d8d3c83 at mail.gmail.com>, 
Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> Tue, 1 Aug 2006 21:09:50 writes

>but AFAICT extracting readable text from images is a complicated and 
>expensive job.  If someone finds a programmatic way to do it cheaply 
>and with reasonable accuracy, I'm sure SB could make excellent use of 
>it.

The samples I have been getting this last month have the image chopped 
up into many separate jig-saw pieces.

I am told that Outlook will kindly stitch it all together to show a 
single image but my safe email client just shows the separate files.

I presume this would complicate analysis even further.

What I find strange is that this type of spam represents 99% of the spam 
I receive (20 or so a day).  It seems to be the only spam that manages 
to regularly get through the Brightmail filter that my ISP uses.  If 
they can't nail the problem then I doubt if there is much to be done 
here.
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