Re: spam

[Jean-Marc Desperrier <jmdesp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Markus Kuhn wrote:

> There is however a neat and effective spam prevention technique related
> to character encodings (to get back onto the topic): Almost 100% of the
> Asian spam that I get contains bytes > 0x7f but *no* MIME header to
> indicate the character set. It seems that the widely used bulk mailers
> do not support MIME at all. I'd have no objections if mailing list
> servers would block messages with 8-bit chars but no MIME headers. They
> are either spam or unrenderable malformed messages or both.

But when you now that the default configuration of Outllook Express, at
least the european version, will not send MIME headers by default  you see
that this will not work. It will also replace all the characters that don't
fit in the current encoding by questions marks.

I wish there would be a way to convince Microsoft these headers MUST be
there by default.

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