{"id":116,"date":"2004-01-19T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2004-01-19T16:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2004-01-19T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2004-01-19T16:09:25","slug":"when-memes-collide-bayesian-filtering-srmabled-text-unstoppable-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/19\/when-memes-collide-bayesian-filtering-srmabled-text-unstoppable-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"When Memes Collide: Bayesian Filtering + Srmabled Text = Unstoppable Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/jwz\/256229.html\">scrmabled text<\/a>, which was briefly popular in September 2003, meets up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulgraham.com\/spam.html\">Bayesian mail filtering<\/a>, you get this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I finlaly was able to lsoe the wieght I have<br \/>\nbeen sturggling to lose for years!<br \/>\nAnd I couldn&#8217;t bileeve how simple it was!<br \/>\nAmizang pacth makes you shed the ponuds!<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s Guanarteed to work or your menoy back!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, spam you can understand, but that your spam filter passes straight through.<\/p>\n<p>I always thought it was a bit arrogant to assume that spammers wouldn&#8217;t almost immediately catch on to the limitations of Bayesian filtering. I&#8217;m guessing that spammers probably don&#8217;t like getting spam to their personal accounts as much as the rest of us do, so they&#8217;re probably using Bayesian filtering too. That means they too have access to a list of words with a high spam score, so they&#8217;ll know what to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a plan I call the <strong>Elitist Filter<\/strong>: reject a message if it has a certain number of spelling mistakes. While this would have problems if you received multilingual e-mail, it would have the serendipitous strong incentive for people to improve their spelling. And that can only be good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When scrmabled text, which was briefly popular in September 2003, meets up with Bayesian mail filtering, you get this: I finlaly was able to lsoe the wieght I have been sturggling to lose for years! And I couldn&#8217;t bileeve how simple it was! Amizang pacth makes you shed the ponuds! It&#8217;s Guanarteed to work or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1688,173],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bayes","tag-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}