On 2026-03-13 at 03:53:42 UTC-0400 (Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:53:42 +0100)
Hans-Martin Mosner via mailop <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Am 13.03.26 um 08:28 schrieb Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop:
Charset-based or language-based filtering seems more reasonable
option to me
(although automatic language recognition requires some computational
power).
As with every heuristic, YMMV.
* 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.
This is a problem in the other direction as well.
For all of this school year, a hoster Abuse mailbox I monitor has
received a steady stream of FBL messages from Hotmail and Yahoo because
a French teacher for a school has been sending all their communications
in French. Presumably the end users (notionally parents...) are
reporting mail as spam purely based on language. Before this year, the
only FBL mail for that school has been all for grade reports.
(the most common Subject: "Re: Absence de votre enfant")
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