Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2006 00:23:15 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Non English Spam Message-ID: <200610150023.38794.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <001c01c6eff4$f77cd590$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645> References: <200610131712.46822.freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> <4530DA30.7060004@locolomo.org> <001c01c6eff4$f77cd590$3c01a8c0@coolf89ea26645>
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--nextPart1948279.keFqu9YnZE Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 14 October 2006 16:58, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Norgaard" <norgaard@locolomo.org> > To: "Beech Rintoul" <freebsd@alaskaparadise.com> > Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 5:38 AM > Subject: Re: Non English Spam > > > I have noted however, that some subscribers to this list write english > > encoded in one of the above character sets, I don't know enough about > > the character set definition, but it seems that English characters are a > > subset of any character set? > > > > What is the recommended policy here? Should subscribers be advised to > > change character set when posting to the list? > > No. It's the responsibility of the person doing the filtering - in this > case you - > to exempt any known good e-mail sender from your filters. > > You know damn well that legitimate mailing list mail comes from > > mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [216.136.204.119]) > > it's right in the headers of the messages on the list. You have no right > to force other people to conform to what you feel is acceptable formatting > of their message as long as they meet the SMTP rfc standards. That's why > we have RFC's. > > If everyone did what your proposing then senders would have hundreds > of different rules they would have to follow, over and above the normal > RFCs. Ted, thank you for the bit of sanity.=20 As for me, Dr. Seaman's suggestions (earlier in this thread) have brought= =20 things back to tolerable levels. I have had many responses and most probabl= y=20 work. But, I need a solution I can install on client machines (and my own)= =20 that doesn't require exotic scripts. I thoroughly parsed my maillog and so far nothing important has landed in /dev/null.=20 Once again, thanks to everyone who responded. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart1948279.keFqu9YnZE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBFMfAKR5sEeCt9j00RAqa/AJwNHuSJrY/OmkpJiPjkp2sNxvqUdACgmi3N dLikg/xhsybTqOzXQEboVuY= =F7B9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1948279.keFqu9YnZE--
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