From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 25 4:46:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 012EC37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk (dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk [194.200.93.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EB7143F75 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 04:46:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk) Received: from pfrench by mailhost.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18xnp7-000EsW-00; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:46:37 +0000 To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Resolver Issues (non valid hostname characters) Cc: daved@nostrum.com, stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3E8049DB.F29A2FBD@mindspring.com> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:46:37 +0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You'll notice that most of the Chinese SPAM you get is not > Unicode-encoded; this is for a good reason. ;^). > > The Japanese hate Unicode because it's in Chinese dictionary order; Mmmm, I noticed this when trying to filter out my girlfriends email for her to stop such spam. Which would have been easy had she not wanted to let through emails from her (japanese) mother. My first solution - to filter on character set - fell at the first hurdle as I found they were using the same encoding. Thanks for the info - it makes a lot more sense now. -pcf. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message