Foreign Languages

[Nathan Brink <na...@whatcounts.com>]

Does SPAM Assassin score what we boarheaded Americans consider to be
"foreign language" email messages the same as it would English?
 
Pardon my ignorance on the matter!
 
Thanks!!
Nate

Re: Foreign Languages

["Chris St. Pierre" <st...@NebrWesleyan.edu>]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007, Nathan Brink wrote:

> Does SPAM Assassin score what we boarheaded Americans consider to be
> "foreign language" email messages the same as it would English?

SA uses a _lot_ of rules that score against English spam.  If you're
receiving spam in another language, then you'll need to translate the
rules, as it were.  SA does not have a language abstraction layer.

Spam detection is based heavily on content.  Content is mired in
language.

Chris St. Pierre
Unix Systems Administrator
Nebraska Wesleyan University

Re: Foreign Languages

[John Thompson <jo...@vector.os2.dhs.org>]

On 2007-03-27, Nathan Brink <na...@whatcounts.com> wrote:

> Does SPAM Assassin score what we boarheaded Americans consider to be
> "foreign language" email messages the same as it would English?

Are you looking for something that would score mail differently 
depending on the language used? Some of the SARE rules are designed to 
handle specific languages differently:

  http://www.rulesemporium.com/rules.htm

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)