[lug] Anyone here speak Korean?

D. Stimits stimits at idcomm.com
Sun Jan 20 11:56:43 MST 2002


Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> On 01-17 08:33, Riggs, Rob wrote:
> > I find it easier to reject all mail from the Asian-Pacific countries
> > altogether. Rejecting mail from 210. and 211. networks reduces spam greatly.
> > It sucks and I hate to do that, but all I get from those IP blocks is noise.
> 
> While we are on this topic, does anyone know of any way to get procmail to
> block email that has non-ASCII (or non-printable?) characters in it? MIME
> attachments will still come through, right? I've been getting a lot of mail
> that was intended to be in some Asian character set (Taiwanese?), some of it
> from a .tw domain, I believe. Very annoying. It's one thing to spam, it's
> quite another to be spamming folks in such a scatter-shot fashion that you
> don't even send it in the language they read. :)
> 
> I don't want to block whole IP blocks, though, because after a quick grep of
> my mailboxes, some of the worthwhile contributors to some of the mailing
> lists I am on have at least 210.x.x.x in their headers. I didn't check for
> 211.
> 
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I almost forgot...the language conversion web site mentioned earlier
wants to charge money to do a translation. The "free" computer version
failed completely.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com



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