> I'm wondering, would it be useful to have a plugin that penalizes messages > with many spelling mistakes? This might help against all those creative > ways of spelling out what the spammer wants to sell.
I don't know that anyone has worked on specifically what you are thinking of, which is an interesting idea and worth testing, I think. There are things like Tripwire that look for some outright outlandish spellings, and lots of things that look for obfuscated specific words. Loren