Bookworm writes: > [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.
we used to have rules to match these -- not sure if they're still about -- check in 20_head_tests.cf. --j.
