Path: news.net.uni-c.dk!newsfeeds.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!newsfeed1.uni2.dk!skynet.be!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!cleanfeed.casema.net!leda.casema.net!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Stefan" From: "Stefan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ References: <9e8cnc$mv14475@news.qualitynet.net> <3B0803BB.9D17B87E@eton.powernet.co.uk> <3B09337E.B27906D5@eton.powernet.co.uk> Subject: Re: RACIST RADIO HOST PIG - Off Topic Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 09:44:38 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3b0a18e4$0$11471$73bec57d@news.be.uu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: uu194-7-102-82.unknown.uunet.be X-Trace: 990517477 news.be.uu.net 11471 194.7.102.82 Xref: news.net.uni-c.dk comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:478989 comp.lang.beta:12895 comp.lang.c:526336 comp.lang.c++:593258 "Richard Heathfield" wrote in message news:3B09337E.B27906D5@eton.powernet.co.uk... > 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. :-) > Probably another way of filtering out these messages, is by counting the number of successive consonants in a single word. I'm not for sure, but I don't think there are that may words in English that contain, for example, more than 6 successive consonants. -- Stefan Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm. ______________________