[Spambayes] Wired: Random Acts of Spamness

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> "Tim Peters" wrote
> There's something fishy about the "random dictionary words" I'm seeing in
> spam:  they're either using a very dictionary, or have a very random number
> generator. 

What on earth is a very dictionary? Is it like the Pepsi Extreme Dictionary?
"Just Like A Dictionary, Only More So"?

> For example, bellatrix and bindweed have appeared in multiple
> spam here.  I doubt that the 22nd brightest star in the sky is a strong ham
> word for most of us <wink>.

Given the number of times we've seen stuff like $RANDOM in spam, it's not
exactly surprising that the spammers have screwed this up. <wink>

Anthony 

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