[LINK] Chinese spam

Deus Ex Machina vicc at cia.com.au
Fri Aug 25 10:42:41 AEST 2006


Brendan Scott [brendansweb at optusnet.com.au] wrote:
> Having received some spam in Kanji/Chinese characters this morning I wondered whether character based writing systems have better spam filters?  Presumably it would be harder to incorrectly "spell" a word - eg Best love dr at gs at best store!  
> 
> What is the kanji equivalent of "dr at gs"?  I'm sure there is scope for word play in such systems, but I assume it is limited to a small number of specific similar characters for any word.
> 

you would be correct. the scope would mostly be in hiragana.

Vic




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