Fellow Spamfighter,
while preparing some slides for an anti-spam workshop I reread Paul
Graham's "Will Filters Kill Spam" at
<http://www.paulgraham.com/wfks.html>.
Wouldn't the URIs mentioned in Spam be good keys for some kind of
auto-whitelisting with a similar mechanism as for AWL?
While the from address is frequently forged, the URIs listed in the mail
body should not.
I like Paul's idea to punish the spammers by auto-retrieving those URIs
but I can imagine lots of collateral damage (spammers include links to
microsoft.com). Auto-whitelisting those URIs and using this to
lower/increase the final score would be different.
Maybe the bayes filter can take URIs into account, but only as part of
the whole body.
Am I wrong on this? Is this a practical idea? Do I miss something?
Regards,
Alex
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