{"id":435,"date":"2007-06-04T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T11:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/06\/an-idea-for-an-email-hoax-detector\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T12:01:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T11:01:35","slug":"an-idea-for-an-email-hoax-detector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/2007\/06\/04\/an-idea-for-an-email-hoax-detector\/","title":{"rendered":"An idea for an email hoax detector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a nifty idea.<\/p>\n<p>I propose a piece of software that automatically scans messages as they arrive at your email server. It attempts to find a match between the text of the email message, and any article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/\">Snopes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If a sufficiently good match is found, and the article in question is marked as &#8220;False&#8221;, then the email is rejected, with a message explaining why.<\/p>\n<p>If some of the big webmail providers could implement this facility by default, it would make the world a much better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a nifty idea. I propose a piece of software that automatically scans messages as they arrive at your email server. It attempts to find a match between the text of the email message, and any article on Snopes. If a sufficiently good match is found, and the article in question is marked as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pete.nu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}