On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Mark wrote: > Here I am thinking out loud while running through my spam log, would a perl > interface to a spell checker with some sort of weighting help kill more of > this junk? > > i.e if there are 100 words in the body, and 75% are misspelled, add it to > the score... > > comments, good idea, bad idea?
Well, the culture to spell correctly tends to be very low when it comes to electronic mail - tons of abbreviations, acronyms, synthetic words, and laziness. Also consider mixed contents, like source code, different languages, URLs, filenames, error messages ... What about non-native speakers? Do you have the SA rules installed posted in conjunction with this thread: http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2004-January/019200.html They are targetted at "gibberish". Bye, -- Steffen Kaiser _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
