brian m. carlson schrieb am Monday, den 05. December 2011: > Package: lists.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Please block posts that are more than half non-English to English-only > lists because by definition these posts cannot be on-topic and are > probably spam. Similarly, blocking non-Spanish posts to Spanish-only > lists, etc. would be great, too. I suspect libtextcat can be pressed > into use here and it is very good at determining the language of a > given text with few false positives. > > I suggest the 50% standard because sometimes people who are not fluent > in English post in their native language and English both in hopes of > communicating more effectively, and this threshold would permit such > posts. We already have language based scoring in place. But these systems are far from being perfect, so it is no option to block a mail from a guess (and is not more than a guess).
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