[chat] Re: [SLUG] Head & Rotor VE 08/23

[Peter Hardy <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 14:39, Jon Biddell wrote:
> At 23/08/2002  12:15, diesel fuel injection wrote:
> >Dear Sir,
> >
> >  *¡°ÖзͨÅä¼þ³§¡±×¨ÒµÉú²úVE±ÃÍ·(VE·ÖÅä±Ã±ÃÍ·×ܳÉ),Ö÷ÒªÐͺÅÓÐ
> >     ÎåÊ®Áå4JB1,¿µÃ÷˹6BT,ÒÀά¿ÂµÍÅÅ·Å,ÎåÊ®ÁäƤ¿¨.....
> 
> Third spam in a foreign character set I've received today - is it too much 
> to ask that THERE be blocked - in fact ALL non-English character sets 
> should be..

We try fairly hard to block non-en.  Any sensible MUA sets a
Content-Type header identifying the character set, and that's easily
workable.
But diesel fuel injection also wrote:
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Considering ISO-8859-1 and us-ascii are the only two character sets we
*want* to allow, well, there goes that idea.
(I'm not sure if Content-Transfer-Encoding is relevant here?)

> X-Priority: 1 (Highest)

X-Priority is set by Outlook and co.  The default is Medium, or 3 I
think.  The only time I've ever seen it set higher is on spam, or
in-house corporate use (arguably the same thing).

And yes, I'm mildly horrified that I hadn't added it to the filters
earlier.

-- 
Pete
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