[JDEV] Jabber and spam?

Mattias Campe mattias.campe at UGent.be
Wed Jun 25 03:42:26 CDT 2003


David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:
> No, a to-fake-script for that would be trivial to write.  It just 
> returns 'a' every time, and if it fails retrys.  It will get through in 
> 1/3 of cases, which is more than adequate for spammers.  At least with 
> alphanumericals they only get through 1/36 of the time (or 1/62 if case 
> sensitive) so they need to use some kind of OCR.

Hmm, statistical analysis was never my thing ;), but it's true, it would 
be trivial to write :(

[...]
Mattias




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