[Scspamcop] Re: Why no Chinese or Japanese blocking?

[Michael R N Dolbear]

Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote 

> It's great being able to steer Russian-language messages
> directly into my Held Mail folder.  Why isn't there a 
> similar option for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean?
> 
> (I'm referring to the paying-subscriber webmail page, under
> Options / Spamcop Tools / Select your email filtering
> blacklists / Block Russian.)

A very recent enhancement (27Sept08) to the SpamCop Mail service.

It blocks email which have "koi8-r" in the headers.

I used to have lots of these but when the flow of spam resumed after
the 12Nov to 22Jan drop I saw hardly any (45 in Sept, 111 in Oct, 10 in
Feb).

If you would care to make an exactly specified proposal and check for
false positives using Search and/or Filter and reports some numbers
then JT might consider it.

Do you have the China country blocklist set ?

What SpamAssassin (SA) setting ?

I have just checked and with 3000+ spams a month and about 1% leakers I
have had no Chinese, Japanese, and Korean leakers in at least the last
6 months . Apparently for my input SpamAssassin (SA) stops them all.

-- 
Mike D