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
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...
Well, since 100% of my users speak english/spanish I can safely bet that
NONE of my mail should h
On Aug 20, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Jorge Asch wrote:
Well, since 100% of my users speak english/spanish I can safely bet
that NONE of my mail should have strange character sets. So I can
assume if they do, they must be spam.
Be careful about that. I've gotten pure English email from folks in
various
A troublesome one for me was Chinese, the GB2312 character set. I started
weighting based on charset=GB2312 and started noticing legitimate e-mail in
English from users/computers in China using the GB2312 character set. The
characters a-z,A-Z are the same in the GB2312 character set. So just becaus
-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-weig
On Aug 20, 2004, at 11:53 AM, Scott Fisher wrote:
Language based spam - filtering is a tough nut.
There are some very good language classifiers out there. SpamAssassin
uses one which seems to be incredibly accurate given enough text.
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On Friday, August 20, 2004, 11:20:44 AM, Vivek wrote:
VK> On Aug 20, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Jorge Asch wrote:
>> Well, since 100% of my users speak english/spanish I can safely bet
>> that NONE of my mail should have strange character sets. So I can
>> assume if they do, they must be spam.
VK> Be
On Friday, August 20, 2004, 12:01:31 PM, Scott wrote:
SF> -Mad,
SF> How set up is Message Sniffer to determine if an e-mail in a foreign
SF> language is spam and then code for it.
SF> I dutifully submit my Spanish spam to the spam at sortmonster.com address.
SF> It's a very, very small percentage
We don't want any violent Mad Scientists!
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On Friday, August 20, 2004, 11:20:44 AM, Vivek wrote:
VK> On Aug 20, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Jorge Asch wrote:
>> Well, since 100% of my users speak english/spanish I can safely bet
>> that NONE of my mail should have s
