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Re: [Asrg] 6. Propsals -- Labeling recommendations for the FTC



Eric S. Raymond wrote:

Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner@nic-naa.net>:

Eric,

i18n/l10n.

Eric

I thought about it.

Yes, the keywords and ADV are English. There are 4, count 'em 4 tokens;
with a vocabulary that small, the benefits of internationalization are extremely dubious compared to the added complexity.

I'll add a 'graph about this to the Rationale.
At the recent OpenGroup Messaging Forum Conference, one of the speakers from Asia discussed the Korean anti-spam law that requires a similar labeling scheme in Korean. He mentioned that spammers tend to use different character sets that technical say the same thing, but in practice are harder to filter.

Yakov
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