On 7-Dec-2009, at 09:55, Marc Perkel wrote: > Any chance someone might be interested in a radical redesign? I think > language exclusion would be an extremely effective spam deterrent as email in > a language you don't speak is definitely spam.
Erm… not necessarily. As a general rule, this might be good for adding weight but I have gotten non-spam emails in a variety of languages I don't speak (Japanese, Italian, French, and Thai at least). Some are because, for example, I have a random signature that is in Japanese. The Thai was because I asked a question on a mailing list about Thai subtitles and the reader misunderstood and thought I was looking for Thai subtitles. As a spam marker, non-english would be useful for me, but not perfect<1>. For my mailserver I know for certain there are virtual accounts (so single UID) that communicate in French, Spanish, Arabic, Farsi, Japanese, and Korean at least. There's also a couple of African languages I don't know the names of. <1> Just like the vast majority of rules; there is no one single perfect rule with a 0% ham hit, not even BAYES_99, which might be why it's BAYES_99 and not BAYES_100. -- Say, give it up, give it up, television's taking its toll That's enough, that's enough, gimme the remote control I've been nice, I've been good, please don't do this to me Turn it off, turn it off, I don't want to have to see
