Matt Kettler wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved.
Here's the situation.
It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the
languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to
trigger unwanted
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
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 08:55 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
Except for very short messages I would think that if you spell checked
the message in several languages and found that 80% was spelled
correctly that you have a match. You wouldn't have to check every
language, just start with some common
Please, could you configure your MUA to quote, instead of colouring?
HTML mail sucks.
On 07.12.09 08:55, 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
Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 08:55 -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
Except for very short messages I would think that if you spell checked
the message in several languages and found that 80% was spelled
correctly that you have a match. You wouldn't have to check every
This should be fairly easy to do: configure SA with the
language(s) you will accept and the ratio of misspellings to
total words that you'll accept as meaning 'unwanted language'
after numbers and HTML tags have been excluded from the
check. Apply the test to the whole body of a
Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved.
Here's the situation.
It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the
languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to
trigger unwanted falsely.
What I'm doing is
On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 11:49:25PM -0500, Matt Kettler wrote:
Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved.
Here's the situation.
It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the
languages you want and it returns many
On 06.12.09 11:39, Marc Perkel wrote:
I'm wondering if the language detection in TextCat can be improved.
Here's the situation.
It appears that TextCat was designed to be inclusive. You list the
languages you want and it returns many possibilities so as not to
trigger unwanted falsely.
