Re: [Ifile-discuss] html tag stripping

[Jason Rennie]

Has anyone tried writing a <insert your favorite scripting language here>
script to pre-process mail so as to identify common spam features, such as
those that SpamAssassin and POPFile use?  There's a lot that can be done. 
Converting

  Yo<kc34sma21py2>uve rea<khuyowp1wuizl>d about them in the

to

  Youve BADHTMLTAG read BADHTMLTAG about them in the

would certainly help in identifying spam.  There are hundreds of such 
features that could be added that would greatly improve ifile (or any 
spam filtering software, for that matter :).  Writing it as a separate script
would make it more flexible so that new spam tricks could be easily added
as they are discovered.

Some resources:

  http://www.jgc.org/tsc/
  http://eu.spamassassin.org/tests.html

Jason