Spellcheck as an anti-spam tool?

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don c.

I'd like to be able to use the MS-Word spellcheck dictionary on email
message bodies, to tag spam messages that invariably contain significant
amounts of gibberish text.

My question(s): Can this be done without opening a new Word document for
each e-mail message, and can it be done without displaying the spellcheck
dialog box? I don't want to verify spelling on each successive misspell by
the sender; I simply want to allow the sender say, 3 or 4 misspellings, then
off to the 'Spam_Spell' (or whatever) folder.

Thanks for any reply.
 
I acctually thought of that as well, however i decided i wanted to us
regular expressions listed line by line in a data file.

Bad idea: typo hell would eat your mail.

Imagine all the people who don't spell check would have big problems
If you could i would like you to post how to interface with outlook vi
a skeleton program in C++/VB.

Thanks
 
It would also cause problems for those of us who receive a message in a
similar language to the sender. For example, if I wrote to an American
with an important message entitled "The cheque is in the post" it would
fail this test.

Ditto if he replied with "What color do you want it in?"

Tricky things this spelling malarkey; I, too, considered it.

- Malc
 
I think this is a cool "out of the box" idea worth exploring. Not only might it help reduce spam, but it might also help people be more careful when the write their emails. I.e., if you detect to many misspellings, mark the message as spam and then send a reply back to the sender letting them know that the email was rejected due to too many spelling errors :-) Be careful of getting into an endless loop from recipients who send an auto reply that also contains spelling errors

You could set security levels like the spam checkers already do that determines how many spelling errors determine spam and allow a list of exceptions for cases like cheque.
 
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