How is Gmail supposed to know what languages you can read and/or speak? Many millions of people can read and speak multiple languages.
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 9:36 PM, cwk <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Why is this hard? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
