Dragaera

Geek/Tangent, Spell Checking Re: what, me spamming?

Thu Oct 7 12:19:36 PDT 2004

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, David Silberstein wrote:

> If that is the case, you might want to make a note to use some of
> the same tricks that spammers use in these situations, that is, to
> mangle the words so that they no longer match what the spam filter
> searches for; eg: "bl*nd", "sehxii", and "b1mb*".

Apologies if the attribution is incorrectly munged...

Something I've always wondered, but not been clueful enough to either
implement or gainsay myself, is why someone doesn't run an email through a
spell check as a spam test?

--Brother Ike