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Fighting image spam

Fighting image spam

Posted Aug 24, 2006 2:18 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: Fighting image spam by dskoll
Parent article: Fighting image spam

Do spammers use the same misspellings over and over? If not (they aren't that stupid), there are an incredibly large number of combinations for each word. Especially when you throw in "looks like" numbers, symbols, and alternate letters. Spammy words would never already be in the database.


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Fighting image spam

Posted Aug 24, 2006 9:28 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

The point is that *gocr* makes the same mistakes over and over, acting as, in effect, a 'this word came from an image' tag. :)

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