Wednesday, 25 February 2004

Tech

Grammar for spammers

Several years ago, some friends and I tried to devise the 'ultimate' spam filter. We never hit the perfect solution, but one came close: check incoming messages grammatically and ditch any that don't make the mark. The idea was that most spam was terribly punctuated so would be stopped. Sure, some genuine messages would get caught too, but heck (and see if you can spot the arrogance here) if someone wanted to communicate with us, they'd best use language correctly.

Posted by pab at 12:37