On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:12:33 +0100
Alexander Prinsier <aphe...@mailhaven.com> wrote:

> On 11/19/2009 01:45 AM, Stevan Bajić wrote:
> >>>> There's also IBM's ITU (open source library) if you need something 
> >>>> heavier.
> 
> > Alexander. What would you say about adding ICU and that character handling 
> > into DSPAM? You seem to be capable to do it. Would be a nice thing to do. I 
> > would not mind if you would take that task :)
> 
> I think the performance penalty would be too big. I mean, I just say all 
> asian email is spam. That's so much more efficient *and* accurate than 
> trying to use ICU or something like it.
> 
You! This might be true for you but it's not about you or me. It's about the 
users using DSPAM. And I don't think that we can say that no Asian user is 
using DSPAM as their Spam filter.


> I don't think there are many asian people using dspam either... So this 
> is a feature nobody is waiting for I think.
> 
Ahh... I would not count on that. Let me quickly check my bookmarks. I remember 
having bookmarked a bunch of links to a mailserver how-to in Asian that uses 
DSPAM. Give me a sec....

Yes. This here: http://www.extmail.org/

Their forum is full of articles about how to use DSPAM. For example:
http://www.extmail.org/forum/archiver/tid-10393.html

And btw there are users using Asian language and DSPAM:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dspam-us...@lists.nuclearelephant.com/msg00191.html

And regarding "...many Asian people using DSPAM...": No wonder they are not 
using DSPAM. It's broken for them. Terribly broken. Why should/would they use 
something that broken?


> But sure, in theory we can support those languages by using ICU, and 
> using that to either tell us the word boundary or to tell us there are none.
> 
IMHO it would be the right thing to do. DSPAM is about statistics and if I 
apply that on this topic then I can say that +/- 20% of all possible DSPAM 
users on this planet are using Chinese as their primary language. That is a 
significant number! We should not ignore them. Just because we have another 
culture and another language and are using letters instead of symbols does not 
mean that we are better then they are. A DSPAM user is a DSPAM user. They are 
our friends. The community part in "DSPAM community project" has a 
value/meaning. Or not?


> Alexander
> 
Steve

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