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Nonsense spam messes with adaptive spam filters. They learn bad rules, thus it becomes harder to identify real spam. ---- Edit: I don't know how effective it
by bd 17y ago
Nonsense spam messes with adaptive spam filters. They learn bad rules, thus it becomes harder to identify real spam.
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Edit: I don't know how effective it really is, but this seems to be the motivation for why spammers at least try this. Many more details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_poisoning
- philwelch 17y agoWouldn't you need significantly more noise spam than signal spam for that to work? Is that what we indeed observe?
- randallsquared 17y agoBut since that's a public good (for spammers) it's hard to understand why they'd do it instead of sending a profit-making campaign, any given time.