Eugene Morozov wrote: > Loren Wilton wrote: >>> I'm wondering, would it be useful to have a plugin that penalizes >>> messages with many spelling mistakes? This might help against all >>> those creative ways of spelling out what the spammer wants to sell. >> >> >> I don't know that anyone has worked on specifically what you are >> thinking of, which is an interesting idea and worth testing, I think. >> There are things like Tripwire that look for some outright outlandish >> spellings, and lots of things that look for obfuscated specific >> words. >> > > Such a plugin was written by someone about a year ago -- > check gmane archive of sa-users mailing list. It turned out > to be not really reliable method for detecting spam. > Eugene
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