Re: reject non-english mail as spam?
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:03:30AM -0700, Lucas Albers wrote:
> I keep getting spam on the list that is completelly foreign.
>
> SA scores it as this in regards the foreign langauge component:
> 1.5 BODY_8BITS BODY: Body includes 8 consecutive 8-bit characters
> 2.8 UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY BODY: Message written in an undesired language
> 3.2 CHARSET_FARAWAY BODY: Character set indicates a foreign language
> 3.2 CHARSET_FARAWAY_HEADER A foreign language charset used in headers
> 2.5 MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY MIME character set indicates foreign language
>
>
> Can we tune the sa rules for this list to reject completelly non-english
> email?
> Or can it be assumed that people will be posting non-english email to this
> list.
This is not my expertise, but how will english emails sent from
computers of people using utf8 (possibly setup to handle another
language) produce with this test?
> Not that I can read them.
> At the very least can we add in the SA english component at perhap these
> score levesl?
>
> 1.0 BODY_8BITS BODY: Body includes 8 consecutive 8-bit characters
> 1.4 UNWANTED_LANGUAGE_BODY BODY: Message written in an undesired language
> 1.5 CHARSET_FARAWAY BODY: Character set indicates a foreign language
> 1.5 CHARSET_FARAWAY_HEADER A foreign language charset used in headers
> 1.75 MIME_CHARSET_FARAWAY MIME character set indicates foreign language
>
>
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> --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman
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