[Spambayes] Can spammers easily sneak through the SpamBayes filter ?

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    gpr> Can spammers easily sneak through the SpamBayes statistical filters
    gpr> easily - for example how about a spam message with good words
    gpr> camouflaged (in something like white color) and only spam content
    gpr> visible to the user. When the filter comes across the message the
    gpr> spam score would lean towards lower value and would sneak through
    gpr> the filter.

SpamBayes doesn't see an email message the way you would, after your mail
program or web browser renders portions of it.  It sees it as simply a
stream of words.  So if the message contains something like this:

  <span color="white">The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.</span>

the HTML tag gets stripped out and it processes

  The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.

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