[Spambayes] Inspecting images (was: SpamBayes to Handle EmbeddedImages)

[Jesse Pelton]

Of course, whatever the approach, the images must be fetched, which
often means letting the spammer know that you've received (and seemingly
viewed) their message, which encourages more messages.  If such a
feature were to be added, it should be disabled by default.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: spambayes-bounces at python.org 
> [mailto:spambayes-bounces at python.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Zweije
> Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 3:56 AM
> To: spambayes at python.org
> Subject: [Spambayes] Inspecting images (was: SpamBayes to 
> Handle EmbeddedImages)
> 
> On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:43:36PM -0700, FreeMJ at HotPop.com wrote:
> 
> ||  Other than a miraculous OCR feature showing up in 
> SpamBayes soon, I'm out
> ||  of ideas for a simple way of managing this type of mail 
> on my home PC.
> 
> Hmm... if anyone is going to work on this, do it the Bayesian way.
> Don't try to recognise text, just recognize patterns in the image.
> Just like spambayes doesn't understand language, just recognizes words
> (and a little of their context).
> 
> Would be a lovely research project, I'm sure.
> 
> Say, how do those photocopy machines decide and refuse when a 
> bank note
> is being copied?
> 
> Ciao.                                                         
>  Vincent.
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> 
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