[Mimedefang] Anyone seeing sneaky spam?

[Ole Craig]

On 03/26/03 at 12:08, 'twas brillig and David F. Skoll scrobe:
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2003, Dave Williss wrote:
> 
> > How's this for a spam detecting rule:  Run the whole message through
> > a spell check and give it a score proportional to the percentage of
> > misspelled words.  This would be a slow check, might be worth it
> > on some systems.
> 
> I hope you only receive English messages...
> 
> It's not a bad idea, though, if you can auto-detect the language and
> use the appropriate dictionary.

	Um. While it might in the long run have a salutary effect on
the (generally poor) quality of non-SPAM email, I think this would
have far too high a false-positive rate to be useful.

		Ole
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