-Mad, How set up is Message Sniffer to determine if an e-mail in a foreign language is spam and then code for it. I dutifully submit my Spanish spam to the spam at sortmonster.com address. It's a very, very small percentage of my overall spam, but it consistently lands in my battleground grey-weight ranges.
I only ask, because I have seen the amount of non-English spam trending upwards. I've noticed spam here in Russian, German, Spanish, Korean, Portuguese and Chinese. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michiel Prins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 7:04 AM Subject: Re[4]: [sniffer] Charset > On Friday, August 20, 2004, 2:35:35 AM, Michiel wrote: > > MP> Pete, even your message had a chaset header: > > MP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Yes, a tricky gadget indeed. > > MP> I think you'll generate more FP's if you do something like that than FN's > MP> you might have now. Aren't there spamassassin config files that detect this > MP> spam? > > Just to be clear - we're not precisely talking about spam per-se. > Rather we're talking about stating that all traffic on a particular > system should be only in one language as a matter of policy... > > The distinction is small I suppose, but in my mind important. In > filtering spam we're usually trying to target only messages that are > unsolicited commercial email, pornography, or somehow harmful... With > this other approach instead of trying to defeat what we don't want, we > are trying to only accept what we do want... Not so much putting up > blocks, more like putting up a huge block and punching holes. > > There are some SA filters that do this kind of thing... > Ultimately I think it boils down to filtering out anything with a > charset that is not wanted. > > If we achieve this by attrition (rather than attempting to capture all > of the charsets at once) then we will achieve a strong result quickly > at a relatively low cost and we might avoid potential false positives > that are out there. > > MHO, > _M > > > > > This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html > > This E-Mail came from the Message Sniffer mailing list. For information and (un)subscription instructions go to http://www.sortmonster.com/MessageSniffer/Help/Help.html
