Re: spam

[Oliver Doepner <oldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 9 May 2000, Jean-Marc Desperrier wrote:

> Markus Kuhn wrote:
> > 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.

Is it important to support MS-Outlooks ugly behaviour ?? Are there many
users on this list who use it ?? And still do so after the "ILOVEYOU" wave
??

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

One way to point out unacceptibility of such behaviour would be the strict
MIME requirement mentioned by Markus - and then talking about why we like
standards like MIME. And why MS doesn't seem to like any standards apart
from their own MS-"standards".

cheers
Oliver

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