[Mimedefang] Idea.. spell checking?

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [mailto:lists at westerncanada.com]
> 
> Here I am thinking out loud while running through my spam 
> log, would a perl 
> interface to a spell checker with some sort of weighting help 
> kill more of 
> this junk?
> 
> i.e if there are 100 words in the body, and 75% are 
> misspelled, add it to 
> the score...
> 
> comments, good idea, bad idea?
> 

Good and bad idea.  Perfect spelling is almost an indicator of spam.

Perhaps a "commonality of use" can be assigned to dictionary words.  Long
strings of very uncommonly used words with no punctuation and with perfect
spelling could be an indicator of spam.