Comments on: Spam.ru http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/ Good stuff, updated weekly(ish) Sun, 12 Oct 2008 09:38:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: zzap http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-9344 zzap Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:14:17 +0000 http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-9344 I speak Russian, and I confirm that is definitely spam. You know when you get spam emails in English but they don't completely make sense, as if someone who is new to speaking English wrote it? Well, it's the same for the Russian spam; which is strange, because you'd think the spammers actually were Russian. I speak Russian, and I confirm that is definitely spam. You know when you get spam emails in English but they don’t completely make sense, as if someone who is new to speaking English wrote it? Well, it’s the same for the Russian spam; which is strange, because you’d think the spammers actually were Russian.

]]> By: John Palfrey » Blog Archive » Why is Spam Such a Hard Problem, Still? http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6518 John Palfrey » Blog Archive » Why is Spam Such a Hard Problem, Still? Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:37:39 +0000 http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6518 [...] Eric Savage, (VP of technology at StyleFeeder), has a great, clear, simple post on Russian spam. [...] [...] Eric Savage, (VP of technology at StyleFeeder), has a great, clear, simple post on Russian spam. [...]

]]> By: esavage http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6239 esavage Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:41:26 +0000 http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6239 Google obviously would not mark all Russian mail as spam, but their system should have learned very quickly that, for me, any word with Russian characters is as much of spam indicator as viagra. I would expect someone who only spoke Russian to see any English emails be marked as spam. It should be noted that I get alot of Chinese spam too, which Gmail seems to have a much easier time dealing with. Google obviously would not mark all Russian mail as spam, but their system should have learned very quickly that, for me, any word with Russian characters is as much of spam indicator as viagra. I would expect someone who only spoke Russian to see any English emails be marked as spam.

It should be noted that I get alot of Chinese spam too, which Gmail seems to have a much easier time dealing with.

]]> By: Rainer München http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6235 Rainer München Sat, 29 Sep 2007 05:37:11 +0000 http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6235 Maybe google doesn't want to have a 100% spam rule on a language? Or maybe not every Cyrillic mail is Russian... There are so many maybes in the spam business ... I get about 50 mails in English a day. 49 are spams one is important. Maybe soon, the Russians can make it to one important mail per day, too. Maybe google doesn’t want to have a 100% spam rule on a language?
Or maybe not every Cyrillic mail is Russian…

There are so many maybes in the spam business …

I get about 50 mails in English a day. 49 are spams one is important. Maybe soon, the Russians can make it to one important mail per day, too.

]]> By: Keith T. http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6069 Keith T. Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:47:41 +0000 http://www.efsavage.com/blog/posts/russian_spam_gmail/#comment-6069 Russian eh? I get Vietnamese. Russian eh? I get Vietnamese.

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