> > > 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. >
Actually I have, and if you search the mail lists quite a ways back, you'll probably find all my findings. I created the eval back in 2.6x to do spell check and create a spelling ratio. The bad thing is, there are a lot of bad speller out there. There are also a lot of things we use in email that just arent dictionary words. SpamAssassin, IMHO, web URI's etc etc... I tried doing many common filters for URIs, accronyms, abbreviations, and such but could never produce a reliable result. And not to mention, its very bad on system resources to spell check email at the server level. This is something for the client level and should remain at the client level. If you want to waste your time on this.. Go for it! All the luck to ya :) Dallas -- Dallas Engelken NMGI
