Peter Smith wrote: > > > The messages are simply a random stream of words, with punctuation > > > scattered in them. No HTML, no URLs being advertised, no excessive > > > capitalisation, just meaningless text. > > I'm cautious about feeding these messages to sa-learn as spam, in > case it has a negative impact on genuine messages. The punctuation is > pretty good - full stops every dozen words or so, the odd comma. In > fact, it's probably better punctuation than most of my users use:) At > the moment I'm just black-listing host or netblocks which this junk > is coming from.
As long as you learn the messages as spam, they will have no negative impact. The only way these messages could cause problems is if they get autolearned as ham instead of spam. -- Bowie