In <3E201ED5(_dot_)4090809(_at_)Sonietta(_dot_)blilly(_dot_)com> Bruce Lilly
<blilly(_at_)erols(_dot_)com> writes:
Not really, since the mainstream mail user agents (mwny of which also
happen to be news user agents) already provide proper encoding and
tagging in header phrases and comments using the RFC 2047 methods. The
untagged non-ASCII content is primarily confined to spam; spammers
tend to use software which is writeen by largely clueless people as
is evident by the large number of syntax errors in spam. Indeed, those
errors (including untagged non-ASCII content) are a good indicator of
spam.
I think you will find that, in the countries where that spam originates
from, users are regularly using untagged non-ASCII in both headers and
bodies when communicating with each other. I have no way of verifying
whether that is true or not in email, but it is most certainly true in the
case of Usenet (you just need to look at the cn.* groups).
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