Re: spam

[Peter Cordes <peter@llama.nslug.ns.ca>]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 09:43:24AM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> > I try to block on character sets: ie., 
> > 
> > ^Content-Type.*charset.*[gG][bB]2312
> > 
> > This catches quite a few spams I can't read.
> > 
> 
> Some mail I try to reply have latin-1 
> chars.
> 
> They will be translated to Japanese charset when I 
> reply to them, so people are conveniently 
> blocking some of my mail,
> which is immensely annoying.

 Does that happen when you are replying in English, or only for Japanese?
i.e. is it a problem if people block charsets that that are only used by
languages they don't understand?  Your message is US/ASCII...

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