From: "Geo." 

"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3f8e8223$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> George needs to write a more intelligent spam filter. Why not parse
> displayable text out of the HTML and do the normal word thing with that?

I already have a filter that does that, but for it to work you have to know
the phrases the spammer uses. A second filter that looks for excessive
amounts of comments catches a hell of a lot of the spam that are worded to
get around filters. It also saves us from having to filter on single words
like viagra or penis.

The trick is to look for patterns not exact matches, that way people can
say what they want and it doesn't get bounced but the spammers use patterns
(like excessive comments) and we can catch those since normal people don't
comment their email (unless of course they work for MS).

Geo.

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