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Use a Mail.app rule to stop Far East spam
Authored by: bdm on Apr 25, '03 12:41:34AM

Note that these character sets include roman characters as a subset, and many Chinese people routinely use them even when sending mail in English. It is convenient for them as they can use English, Chinese or a mixture. It isn't even just people in those countries who use these character sets either; I get mail from Chinese friends in USA and Europe who use it too. Don't block mail based on Chinese character set unless you don't want any mail at all from Chinese people. Same for cyrillic etc.

The "right" way is to measure the fraction of the email body which is in non-roman characters. I don't know if it is possible in Mail.



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