Spam Detection (was: Kharoshthi CVC Orthographic Units)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 6758
Date: 2007-03-28

Seshat wrote:

> Sorry for the delay. This message had been automatically flagged as
"spam", don't know why... Perhaps Yahoo-Group's robots think that
"Kharosthi" is a brand of "Vi@..."? :-)

One spam detection technique is to assume that anything that consists
of more quotation than new content is spam. Peter Daniels' reply fell
foul of that rule. I've seen several such posts tagged as probable
spam. It's part of Yahoo's anti-spam 'enhancements'.

Richard.

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