“Of course, this is a heuristic, which is a fancy way of saying that it doesn't work.”

—  Mark Jason Dominus

My Life With Spam : How I Caught the Spam and What I Did With It, February 9, 2000, Dominus, Mark Jason, 2006-11-30 http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2000/02/spamfilter.html,

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