Because when I'm doing technical writing (such as for a FAQ ),

And take it from this professional tech writer with 17 years experience, you've done a helluva job on it!

The fact that you bring this up scares me.

There is not a single person on my IM list (20+ people) that type in complete sentences anymore. THe latest addition to my list said, and I quote:

In reply to:

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you are one of the first ppl ive met who actually uses punctuation and caps in im

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That speaks for itself. I can't spell worth a crap, but I know quite a bit of grammar, I'd like to believe.

(What gets me is the improper use of the apostrophe. Ugh.)

Me.

And take it from this professional tech writer with 17 years experience, you've done a helluva job on it!

Hey, thanks very much!

Greetings!

Someone sent this to me in email the other day. I was surprised how well it really works!

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Yep, a tactic that spammers will use to defeat Bayesian spam filters, I'm sure.

Snopes isn't so convinced it was a Cambridge study, though there's no mention of the rumor that the technique was discovered after the researchers tipped a few too many at The Wrestlers.

Deja Vu.

Yep, a tactic that spammers will use to defeat Bayesian spam filters, I'm sure.

The latest thing seems to be adding full stops and other random punctuation randomly scattered through the content. I was offered a gentlemen's enhancement therapy the other day which was claimed to be 1.00% effective. Oh, good-oh.

Peter

1.00% effective

Hey, every "little bit" helps! (Or so I'm told.)

Cool! I missed that! It is a neat study!

I received a spam message the other day in which the entire email, both header and body, contained nothing but characters with umlauts.

LOL, clearly written by an 80's heavy metal band.

I'd be happy if the spam filter ran the mail through a spell-checker. If it had too many misspellings, then it'd drop it as spam.

I guess that a sufficiently trained Bayesian filter approaches this (as the ham-database fills up with correctly-spelt words, and the spam-database collects their misspellings), but it'd be interesting to see it as a separate metric.