Dnia 13.03.2026 o godz. 08:53:42 Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop pisze:
>  * Schools may have foreign-language classes and partnerships with schools in 
> corresponding countries.
>  * Regular users of your mail service may enjoy communicating in foreign 
> languages, either because they are learning
>    them (I know people who learn chinese for fun) or because it's their 
> native language when they're immigrants. Unless
>    you know every user of your mail service and can be reasonably sure that 
> they all use a single language, rejecting
>    based on language/charset may hit legitimate mail.

I was talking about *majority* of *typical* cases.

The cases you are mentioning are exceptions that recipients know about :)

A person that learns Chinese, or is of Chinese origin, would obviously not
want to filter out emails in Chinese language. But a *typical* European
user, who has no connection to China - like me - would.

I speak Polish, English, German and Russian. I don't know any other
languages, so for myself theoretically I could filter out emails in all
other languages (if I would receive them, of course - actually I don't,
except a lot of Asian languages spam some time ago), as I can't read them
anyway :)

Filtering should be always adjustable per-user, not enforced equally on all
users. Someone may be even interested in obvious spam from bots etc., for
research purposes.

> I have yet to
> encounter a filtering strategy (with the possible exemption of the
> "null-filter") that is guaranteed to create no false positives.

No such thing exists.

> You need a working process for dealing with false positives.

Obviously, that's why I said filtering must be adjustable (and adjusted) per
user.
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   Jaroslaw Rafa
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