Re: [Fsfe-uk] address@hidden

[Stuart Yeates]

MJ Ray wrote:
> On 2004-11-17 17:55:33 Illtud Daniel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
> > Mi fyddwn yn gweithredu ffilteri spam ychwanegol ar ein ebost
> > (rydym yn blocio eitha lot yn barod - 2,481 ers dydd Sul, er
> > enghraifft) cyn gynted ag y cawn yr amser a'r adnoddau rhydd i
> > wneud hynny.
>
>
> Kvankam estas feliĉiginta, legi Kimrie ĉi tie, sed mi nek 
> komprenas multe nek povas respondi Kimrie. Kial nombro de 
> retpoŝtaĉoj barataj estas poŝtindaj al fsfe-uk-dissendlisto?
>
> Although it's nice to see a message in Welsh on here, I don't 
> understand much of it. Why should the number of spam rejections 
> since Sunday be posted to the fsfe-uk mailing list?

Putting two and two together to get five...

It's possible that automatic bayesian filter type spam systems can 
accidently learn to reject non-english emails (because all "good" emails 
are in english and some "bad" emails are in random non-english 
languages). This is not a problem until someone breaks the pattern and 
sends a "good" email in a non-english language (such as Welsh).

There are a number of solutions to the problem, none of them perfect. 
The spam system can be better configured, the administrator can explicit 
mark some non-english language mails as "good," or the poster can send 
bi-lingual messages so that the english content words get the message 
marked as "good" and teach the filter about Welsh.

I believe this is a problem globally with minority languages.

cheers
stuart
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