Re: are there any alternatives to textcat?
On 14.07.10 12:32, Jason Haar wrote: For some weird reason I seem to get a lot of Chinese spam - and even with TextCat enabled, SA is unable to recognise it as Chinese (ie I want to score on X-Spam-Languages:). I've Googled around and it looks like TextCat ceased development some time ago, so I was wondering if there is any known alternative that is more capable? The idea behind TextCat seems sound, but the only alternative I've found is Google Translator - but sending your emails to it may not be an option ;-) did you set up ok_languages? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. He who laughs last thinks slowest.
Re: are there any alternatives to textcat?
On 07/20/2010 11:36 PM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: did you set up ok_languages? Yup - in general it does work - it's just that textcat doesn't seem to be able to figure out Chinese from a 5 paragraph email containing nothing but Chinese and about 5 words of English. I had a similar problem with Greek spam earlier this year too. Not really a fault - my comment is that the idea is sound - it's just a dead project (from the sounds of it) and I wish it wasn't. -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
Re: are there any alternatives to textcat?
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 07:35:36PM -0500, Chris Owen wrote: On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Jason Haar wrote: For some weird reason I seem to get a lot of Chinese spam - and even with TextCat enabled, SA is unable to recognise it as Chinese (ie I want to score on X-Spam-Languages:). I've Googled around and it looks like TextCat ceased development some time ago, so I was wondering if there is any known alternative that is more capable? Well according to the TextCat web site: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html It's more of the implementation that needs an update than TextCat algorithm itself. Charset/case awareness: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6229 Better database: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4152 Etc.. feel free to chime in..
RE: are there any alternatives to textcat?
It's more of the implementation that needs an update than TextCat algorithm itself. Charset/case awareness: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6229 Better database: https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=4152 Etc.. feel free to chime in.. There is one more thing I guess it should be fixed (or at least I can't get why it is the way it is right now): charsets in TextCat language database. Why are languages in the database expressed in different charsets? Isn't it better to have them in unicode only?
Re: are there any alternatives to textcat?
On ons 14 jul 2010 02:32:36 CEST, Jason Haar wrote The idea behind TextCat seems sound, but the only alternative I've found is Google Translator - but sending your emails to it may not be an option ;-) relaycountry maybe ? or if one make a aspell/ispell plugin -- xpoint http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
are there any alternatives to textcat?
Hi there For some weird reason I seem to get a lot of Chinese spam - and even with TextCat enabled, SA is unable to recognise it as Chinese (ie I want to score on X-Spam-Languages:). I've Googled around and it looks like TextCat ceased development some time ago, so I was wondering if there is any known alternative that is more capable? The idea behind TextCat seems sound, but the only alternative I've found is Google Translator - but sending your emails to it may not be an option ;-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1
Re: are there any alternatives to textcat?
On Jul 13, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Jason Haar wrote: For some weird reason I seem to get a lot of Chinese spam - and even with TextCat enabled, SA is unable to recognise it as Chinese (ie I want to score on X-Spam-Languages:). I've Googled around and it looks like TextCat ceased development some time ago, so I was wondering if there is any known alternative that is more capable? Well according to the TextCat web site: http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/competitors.html Chris -- - Chris Owen - Garden City (620) 275-1900 - Lottery (noun): President - Wichita (316) 858-3000 -A stupidity tax Hubris Communications Inc www.hubris.net -
