Re: SpamAssassin Corruption?

["Ken Hagan" <ken@alacrity-it.com>]

If they use Cromwellian, moose, cutlass, and cowpony in the same
message, they are completely free to spam away.  Damn.

Perhaps adding a script that uses wordnet to determine if there are no
sentences with verbs in the message?  One could easily develop a decent
grammar to check the grammar in the message and determine that there are
no intelligible sentences and assume that the message is probably spam.
The filter could be added to maildrop/procmail after spamassassin and
used to find gibberish messages and tag them accordingly.  


-----Original Message-----
From: silug-discuss-owner@silug.org
[mailto:silug-discuss-owner@silug.org] On Behalf Of L. V. Lammert
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:17 PM
To: discuss@mail.sluug.org; cwe-lug@lists.firepipe.net;
discuss@silug.org
Subject: SpamAssassin Corruption?

I have been seeing a lot of SPAM with just a list of idiotic words, like

this snippet:

scimitar irrational connoisseur combinate involute alloy darlene cutlass

magdalene arbitrary concatenate o'connor embroidery cromwellian
demonstrate 
abeyant chopin fragmentation sforzando thug dinnerware hieronymus 
forbidding bitt algol deregulatory bequeath asplenium volition alvin 
contribution blutwurst cart pontiff kiev moody ,kimball agone corona 
guarantee psychiatry quakeress differential brooklyn allocate ail pledge

clara compatriot convulse spout because frill cowpony chaff clergy
buckeye 
cholesterol healey cbs flown moose reeve quorum reversion moratorium 
breakpoint trytophan

It occurred to me that this might be some sort of a trick to try and
fool 
Bayesian filters into not blocking certain types of spam! Any thoughts
on 
the results of feeding random words into SA?

         Lee

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    Leland V. Lammert                                lvl@omnitec.net
       Chief Scientist                         Omnitec Corporation
   Network/Internet Consultants              www.omnitec.net
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