On 13/05/07, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
> With Bayesian filtering on the message body, the
sort of mail from
> humans that I've seen get eaten by Thunderbird is messages from IT
> recruiters, who seem to write spam natively.
There were actually a few scams which claim to offer
employment. When you
give them your details, they use them for identity theft -- applying for
credit in your name, for instance. So it's quite possible that the IT
recruitment messages you saw were in fact spam.
Oh yes - I'm talking about actual email from actual recruiters that I
was expecting.
> GMail eats stuff from
> Wine-Users, presumably because it talks about the same Windows
> software that shows up advertised in spam.
Thunderbird once identified a long, wordy plaintext
email from a
university colleague as spam. Presumably it had been trained to recognise
rare words as being spammy, following the keyword stuffing trend in HTML
and image spam. Server-side filtering is more reliable, in my experience,
especially when the filtering software has human care and feeding.
wikien-l has had noticeably less spam to wade through. No complaints
from humans (User:V1k@gr@) so far.
- d.