Posted in Why is Hotmail so bad at spam?
Posted Friday 15th June 2007 14:21 GMT
"any ordinary human would be able to detect this as spam"?
Presumably you mean any ordinary human who can read Vietnamese.
Of course, if you can't read Vietnamese, then it's a bit suspicious that they're writing to you in that language ...
Perhaps e-mail services should let users specify which languages they are interested in receiving e-mail in, and language identification could be part of the spam filtering.