On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 the voices made Craig R Hughes write:

> Tony L. Svanstrom wrote:
>
> TLS>
> TLS>  Just a thought... wouldn't it be a good idea to have a "dictionary" with
> TLS> common words in spam; each word could have a low score, but it'd add up pretty
> TLS> quickly whenever you get a 3 page pornmail...

> Better than a straight dictionary of single words is a dictionary of phrases,
> weighted by their frequency in spam vs nonspam.  Hmm, wait, that sounds familiar
> somehow...  ;)  I suppose we ought to turn spam phrases back on....  I'll work
> on that right now, and check it in once working.

 Silly me for thinking that a lot of smallish scores could add up when spammers
try to avoid the usual phrases... I mean, it would be such a dumb thing to
match on single words, esp. with shortish spam.

 =)

        /Tony
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