"nuts and bolts" article for spam watchers.

[Andilinks]

My apologies if you've seen this one already:

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html

This comes via Paul Haahr (http://www.webcom.com/~haahr/welcome.html)

There's a lot in this article, but one observation about statistical analysis of spam that made me smile was:

"In fact, "ff0000" (html for bright red) turns out to be as good an indicator of spam as any pornographic term."

Andi

[sheila]

Just to tie things together...
previous discussion here:

http://www.aota.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12015

[Andilinks]

It just seemed too good to not be already "out there," I did scan the thread titles, missed that one. Sorry again. Better late than never and other clichés that might apply.

Andi