Re: RFC 2047 and gatewaying

Charles Lindsey wrote:

> 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).
And your point is..?

If it is not "spammers use untagged non-ASCII, so it's OK for Usenet",
then what precisely is it?