chinese-language email

[Daniel Maher]

If you actually receive a fair amount of Chinese-language spam, you may want to consider the following:
http://www.ccert.edu.cn/spam/sa/Chinese_rules_en.htm


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-
> bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Adri Koppes
> Sent: August 3, 2006 8:45 AM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: RE: chinese-language email
> 
> > Ok, but from what I've seen, the default is en, so we're all
> > using it.
> > This doesn't really answer my question...  What I meant is
> > that CHARSET and FARAWAY rules helps us catch some spam from
> > foreign countries.  If I get a few false positives for
> > chinese e-mails and I put chinese in ok_locales and
> > ok_languages, my catch rate for chinese spam will we lower
> > right?  Most of our traffic is english and french.
> 
> Ugo,
> 
> I know, Jules put the default for english only in spam.preferences.conf.
> This means any non-english message will get an extra 2 or 3 points added
> to the SA score.
> When you add the chinese language, it will no longer add the extra score
> to these messages, so yes, the catch rate for chinese spam will be
> lower.
> If most of your traffic is english and french, I'd suggest using 'en fr'
> for ok_languages.
> 
> Adri.
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