> Following discussions on this list about obfuscating words to avoid spam
> detection, and not being a ninja, I'd like some feedback about the
> possible efficacy or pitfalls on rules like the following.
[snip]
In general, there are three main ways of dealing with these obfuscations:
1. Hand-cra
nyone wants to talk about this more, mail me privately, and we can hit
reply all (if I know who you are :) )
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-Original Message-
From: Mike Grau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 28 February 2005 17:55
To: users@spamassassin.apache.org
Subject: Re: Rule advice please
>
>
>
>Hello.
>
>Following discussions on this list about obfuscating words to
>avoid spam
>detection, and not being a ninja, I'd like some feedback about the
>possible efficacy or pitfalls on rules like the following.
>
>As noted in other discussions, words with scrambled letters
>between the
>fir
subject =~ /\b(?!cartoon|croatan|carroon)c[arto]{5}n\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!downloadable)d[ownladb]{10}e\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!dripping)d[ripn]{6}g\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!ejaculating|enunciating)e[jacultin]{9}g\b/i
You can't use rules like this. The pattern "can" matches your first
exam
subject =~ /\b(?!cartoon|croatan|carroon)c[arto]{5}n\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!downloadable)d[ownladb]{10}e\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!dripping)d[ripn]{6}g\b/i
subject =~ /\b(?!ejaculating|enunciating)e[jacultin]{9}g\b/i
You can't use rules like this. The pattern "can" matches your first
ex
