Spam collection

Karl Schmidt karl at xtronics.com
Fri Jan 17 22:33:12 CST 2003


For the bogofilter to work best it really should be your own spam. Start 
archiving it just in case.

Hal Duston wrote:
> All,
> 
> Charles Steinkuehler mentioned that he had begun saving is spam for
> bogofilter training, and I just wanted to let everybody know that I have
> saved over 1800 spam messages from the past year or so.  The spam is both
> from the list, and sent directly to me, as well as to the webmaster
> address.  I have processed it to remove most of the "Received:" lines, as
> well as replaced my own/the list/the webmaster address with @TO at .  Also I
> have replaced any instances of my own ISP/the list's machine name with
> @HOST at .  The file tgz'd is around 8MB, so I would rather not host it on my
> ISP's home machine as I am already at around 300% of the stated quota.
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
> 

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Definition of Windows XP:
SPAM, thinly disguised as an operating system
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