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Jeff Waugh wrote: | <quote who="James Gregory"> | |>>How can we get a spam filter to check for misspelt words and reject the |>>mail on that basis? |> |>I thought about this a while ago. It would be relatively easy to implement |>-- just hook aspell into a procmail rule. I eventually came to two |>conclusions: |> |>1. I would lose a lot of important (though difficult to read) mail this |>way. |>2. For any significant misspellings of words, bogofilter will already look |>for them. | | | Mind you, having client-side scoring down of people who can't spell would be | a fantastic feature for spelling-fascists the world over. Tell you what: I'D | LIKE THIS FEATURE SO MUCH, I'D BUY THE COMPANY!
english is a ridiculous language anyway.
but restricting spam based on english spelling would be terrible for those of use who can speak more than one language. more so for those of us whos second (third and forth) languages arent a european or asian or middle eastern language.
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