The past few days I've had spam showing up in my in-box with Chinese characters. I don't speak Chinese, and can't read anything written in Chinese. Nobody I want to hear from will send me email with those characteristics. Same goes for email written in Japanese Kanji characters or Cyrillic letters. I'm sure as the Net spreads into Arabic-speaking countries we'll see more spam in Arabic characters. That being the case, it seems that I should be able to tell Gmail that I don't want any email written in those character sets. I've been doing that -- to a point -- by reporting anything in those sets as spam, but Gmail seems to be a slow learner. Seems to me the algorithm should be pretty simple: If most of a message is in a language I can't read it's spam.
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