FAQ: Asian spam

[Boris 'pi' Piwinger]

Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li> wrote:

>> I think there should be something on asian spam.
>
>Er, bogofilter works fine on Asian (and other) spam.  Once it's seen
>some (and I have a fair bit in my training folder) it works very well.
>
>I'm not sure why you would want something specific about this as
>distinct from say Viagra spam or Nigerian scam spam?

Well, the problem is that Bogofilter cannot really
understand the text. I'm not sure how the lexer performs
there and if this potentially blows up the database.

pi