Dragaera

Geek/Tangent, Spell Checking Re: what, me spamming?

Thu Oct 7 14:50:46 PDT 2004

Ike Porter wrote:

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>Apologies if the attribution is incorrectly munged...
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>Something I've always wondered, but not been clueful enough to either
>implement or gainsay myself, is why someone doesn't run an email through a
>spell check as a spam test?
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>--Brother Ike
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And don't forget that many people on the internet have truly atrocious 
spelling, even if we don't mention (and we probably shouldn't!) all the 
highly idiomatic and rapidly evolving slang peculiar to the medium. I 
doubt things like 'haxx0rz,' 'pr0n,' or other such grave offenses 
against the Queen's Own English are in your average spellchecker.

Noah