Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeeds.net.uni-c.dk!arclight.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B096448.963B99B8@my-deja.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: RACIST RADIO HOST PIG - Off Topic References: <9e8cnc$mv14475@news.qualitynet.net> <3B0803BB.9D17B87E@eton.powernet.co.uk> <3B09337E.B27906D5@eton.powernet.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 39 Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:12:01 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.79.191.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 990479521 12.79.191.222 (Mon, 21 May 2001 21:12:01 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:12:01 GMT Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:478913 comp.lang.beta:12891 comp.lang.c:526265 comp.lang.c++:593178 Richard Heathfield wrote: > > Zy Baxos wrote: > > > > I've always wondered what the random-looking garbage at > > the end of stupid spam posts was - I always assumed it > > was rot13 or a variant thereof. How does that work as a > > counter-counter-spam measure? > > Some newsfeeds will filter out duplicate articles. The pseudo-random > gibberish inhibits this process. > > > Ob on topic question: > > > > How would one program a counter^3-spam measure against > > this in VB? > > Given the number of newsgroups to which this is cross-posted, I cannot > imagine an answer which is both comprehensive and topical. As a minor > observation, however, one possible avenue to explore would be to look up > all words longer than, say, N characters, and check them against an > English dictionary. If fewer than P percent are found, then reject the > article, or at least pass it on for human inspection. The discovery of > appropriate values of N and P is left as an exercise for the discerning > ISP's anti-spam team. :-) Interesting idea. It will also tend to reject code postings which contain no discernable blanks, and are thus intrinsically unreadable, if we make words blank/tab/EOL delimited. In fact, we might simply reject postings containing word lengths in excess of some suitable limit. Plays hell with obfuscated source though. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@my-deja.com) (cbfalconer@XXXXworldnet.att.net) http://www.qwikpages.com/backstreets/cbfalconer :=(down for now) (Remove "NOSPAM." from reply address. my-deja works unmodified) mailto:uce@ftc.gov (for spambots to harvest)