[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
.... that analyzes and scores email addresses:
we have big companies that give their employees more or less random strings as
email addresses
(but length will not be extremely long)
Otherwise we have email addresses that somehow are built from a person's name,
(e.g first.last, f.last, last17f or similar), and we have addresses that are a
person's nick, or
otherwise relate to its hobby or profession. In rare cases someone would make
an email
address from the name of some celebrity.
Now something that seems to be typical for spam are display names that look
like a person's
name along with email addresses that look like a different person's name, and
often seems
to belong to a different language.
The hypothhetical plugin would have to find out whether the mail addy looks
like a name,
whether the display name looks like a name as well, and only in that case
determine whether
the names have anything in common
Wolfgang Hamann
Or simply a plugin that scans for more than three numeric characters in
the first portion of the email address. On one of the boards I host and
maintain, I frequently see things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yes,
plural).
I get them in spams as well. The reason I said more than three is that
I know that with AOL and similar, you get stuff like [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
because of all the bobs. Of course, you could simply tell it to ignore
@aol/hotmail/excite - the major boards that do this.
If nothing else, it'd be a nice test to increase the probability of spam.
BW
