Over the last 3-4 days, I've been seeing more bozo spam - by which I mean random strings of words and punctuation designed to "untrain" a Bayesian filter. Since I don't use a Bayesian filter (I have a simple keyword matcher), it just ends up being annoying. This morning's batch had nonsense like "Gonzalez:Visigoths" (along with other nonsense words) in it.

This is somewhat annoying for me to clean up, and it doesn't actually do the spammer any good either - he can't untrain what I don't have. The ironic part is, whenever the spam switches over to the "real" stuff (porn and phama links, mostly) - it gets blocked by the keyword matcher quite easily. It's a game, I suppose, but one the spammer doesn't have any shot of winning. Not that it matters to him, of course - the incremental cost of sending hundreds of spam comments my way is effectively nil.

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