[dspam-users] problems detecting spam containing certain characters in the tokens?

Hello,

I'm running dspam 3.6 and a mysql 4.1 backend. I have one user that
receives a large amount of spam that are non-english and full of
characters that I am not sure my PC can even represent correctly, they
look like this to me:

ÍøÕ¾½¨Éè - רҵ¿ìËÙ¿Í»§¹ý1000¼Ò
or
*Ó¦¶Ôº£¹Ø»ü²é¼°½ø³ö¿Ú¹ØÎñ¼¼ÇÉ*
or
ÎÞЧµÄÉö²¡»¼ÕßËÙÀ´ÍË¿î
etc...

dspam is very accurate for most of my users (and for some types of
spam that this user gets) but despite constant training of 20-30
messages like this a day for several weeks dpsam seems to miss alot of
these "weird" character containing spams. dspam probably catches over
70% of them, but enough get through to annoy the user.

my questions is: could it be that either dspam interpretting or mysql
is storing these characters incorrectly or in a way that is decreasing
the algorithms effectiveness? Maybe one of the underlying libraries
on my system is at fault? and if so, could I possibly improve
accuracy by changing a field type, library, etc? I'm a little lost on
how to research this, so any thoughts are appreciated.

-Aaron
Received on Thu Dec 1 09:49:29 2005