-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 25 August 2006 13:17, decoder wrote: >> Another wish: I'd like to create a database to ship with the >> plugin so it can be used out of the box but I do not have much >> samples here, so it would be nice if you sent me picture samples >> of common picture spam you get with "[picture sample]" in the >> subject to my mail address. I will post here again if I got >> enough :). > > Wouldn't it be more productive to the community to work with SURBL > to enable the centralized storage of these hashes? > > Or perhaps with Razor2? > > I'm not an expert on Razor, but my limited understanding of it is > that it generates hashes of (portions of) message bodies and stores > that hash for future comparison. > > It would seem that once someone decide something is spam, one could > take your hash and wrap a minimal message around it and report THAT > to razor. > > Then your engine could examine an image, generate your hash, and > wrap it in the same minimal message and Query Razor. Presumably > getting a hit. > > No local database is needed, because a world wide one would be > substituted. That way, if you get this spam and report it, It will > already be known by the time I get the spam. > Maybe it would. But this kind of hash is no real "hash". It is just a combination of picture features that I invented... but it seems reliable in my tests so far. Once it has been tested in public, such a cooperation with SURBL or Razor might be possible
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