Re: Use language determination tool for SPAM prevention (Was: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool)

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Andreas Tille] > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:27:03PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > > > I've been thinking about this some as well for my personal domain. > > Debian has tools that can determine the language of a document > > (libtextcat and friends). > > So this is even better. Amazingly,

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread The Fungi
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: [...] > I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it > can distinguish between writing an English text with some / > several mistakes and a text with say 50% error rate which is > probably not understandable anyway.

Use language determination tool for SPAM prevention (Was: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool)

2011-02-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 02:27:03PM +, brian m. carlson wrote: > > I've been thinking about this some as well for my personal domain. > Debian has tools that can determine the language of a document > (libtextcat and friends). So this is even better. > Emails that are 70% or more composed of

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread brian m. carlson
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:19:07AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > since some time we get more and more SPAM which is easily to detect for > me (and most probably automatically): SPAM in languages I do simply not > understand and which are definitely not English. Wouldn't it be a > reasonable means

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:42:49AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Andreas Tille, le Fri 11 Feb 2011 10:19:07 +0100, a écrit : > > PS: I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it > > can distinguish between writing an English text with some / several > > mistakes and a

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Samuel Thibault, Am 2011-02-11 10:42:49, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > Andreas Tille, le Fri 11 Feb 2011 10:19:07 +0100, a écrit : > > PS: I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it > > can distinguish between writing an English text with some / several > >

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Samuel Thibault (11/02/2011): > Mmm, I think we've already had users that have even 50% error rate, > simply because they mispell things. I like the intended pun! KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Andreas Tille, le Fri 11 Feb 2011 10:19:07 +0100, a écrit : > PS: I assume that a spell checker can be configured that way that it > can distinguish between writing an English text with some / several > mistakes and a text with say 50% error rate which is probably not > understandable a

Spell checker as reasonable SPAM prevention tool

2011-02-11 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, since some time we get more and more SPAM which is easily to detect for me (and most probably automatically): SPAM in languages I do simply not understand and which are definitely not English. Wouldn't it be a reasonable means for a SPAM filter to mark mails which blatantly fail a spell chec