"Werner" == Werner Koch <wk(_at_)gnupg(_dot_)org> writes:
Werner> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 08:24:43PM -0800 Tom Rushworth wrote:
(1) blocking certain addresses (2) restricting posters to
subscriber addresses (or some such) (3) changing the list name to
temporarily dodge the spam.
Werner> (4) Do only allow RFC822 compliant messages.
Werner> I have noticed that most of these junk mails (frankly I don't
Werner> know whether it is really junk as I am not able to read
Werner> chinese(?)) are not RC822 compliant. In most cases the mail
Werner> headers do contain characters with bit 7 set - which is never
Werner> allowed in the headers.
It isn't? Weird. That seems like a spec bug that's bound to get
fixed at some point, because of course it's an english-only
restriction that we aren't supposed to have anymore. And perhaps my
memory is flaky, but I would have sworn that I've seen legit mail from
Europe with Latin-1 characters in the headers.
paul