Anyone want to write an "intelligent" mail filter?
Every day I get more annoying SPAM e-mails. Currently it's running about 10
spams to every valid e-mail.
I'm tired of wading thru them, and I'd rather not download them at all.
My e-mail client can filter the messages by sender or subject, but most
spams now are written to get around those filters.
One thing I notice is that nearly 100% of the spams either contain the
word "lagos" or long strings of "dictionary" words to confuse the filters:
"indecisive constitute dakar summitry ajax beaver descendent withal
circumlocution asocial voluble inquire convolution replete hitler
commendation segregate cognition abstract eject disgustful"
But very few or none of the more common shorter words that would likely
appear in a valid e-mail: "a, and, or, if, you, we, I, to, for, the, this,
that....."
We should be able to come up with a routine which would analyze a given
text string and rank it according to its likelyhood of being a 'meaningful'
message. Then use that routine in an e-mail client to rank messages and
only download from the server those which appear to be 'real'.
Ideas?
Irv
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