Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian attack

2002-11-19 Thread Sean Redmond
Bob Apthorpe wrote: corpi (sp?) The plural is "corpora" :-) -- Sean Redmond BMA Information Systems smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian attack

2002-11-19 Thread Sean Redmond
explanation, only the most interesting tokens are considered in calculating the likelyhood that it's spam, so watering down the body of the message should only makes the interesting things more interesting. -- Sean Redmond BMA Information Systems smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian attack

2002-11-20 Thread Sean Redmond
instance). Plus, their pitch would be so buried in all the fluff that you wouldn't be able to find it unless they made the the linuxy text very small or white-on-white or clear, and those html tags would then become *very* statistically significant. -- Sean Redmond BMA Information System

Re: [SAtalk] Bayesian attack

2002-11-20 Thread Sean Redmond
Matt Sergeant wrote: Sean Redmond said the following on 20/11/02 15:25: > But this is where the personalization of the corpus is important, > because *I* never get football related mail, so that makes it > suspicious right there. No, it doesn't. It puts it into the "u