February 05, 2004
How did it ever come to this? The growing spam problem forced me to install SpamBayes, a very smart and well done in Python to block spam based on Bayesian rules. It works great and catches 75% of spam, I'd say. But if send myself a file from home to work, it will label it as spam too - no text, just an attachement, very suspect.
So I have taken to entering random words in the body of those emails - to fool my own spam filter.
Too many people, when listing all the perils to be found in the search for lost treasure or ancient wisdom, had forgotten to put at the top of the list 'the man who arrived just before you'.