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

[Michael R N Dolbear]

Peter Pearson <ppearson at nowhere.invalid> wrote 

> > 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.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what search and/or filter technique
> you're suggesting, but I the string "gb2312" does not appear
> (independent of case) in the subject line of any of the 32,820
> subject lines in my non-spam email archives.  Is that the
> sort of thing I need to say?
> 
> If I learned more about email standards, I could probably
> distinguish between a GB2312 at the beginning that means
> "This subject line will be displayed in Chinese characters"
> and a GB2312 that happens to be part of the subject, as in
> "Let's discuss filtering on GB2312."
> 
> Filtering out emails whose subject-line character sets are
> for languages that I can't read seems extremely safe.

Plenty of those in Held and Trash, but last GB2312 a week ago so not
much use for me. 

-- 
Mike D