On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 12:48:53PM -0800, Daniel Quinlan wrote: | Matthew Cline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | | > For those of you who find that English-centricity helps to filter spam, | > here's a rule that looks for non-ASCII encoding in the subject line: | > | > header NON_ASCII_ENC_SUBJ Subject =~ /=\?(?:euc-kr|big5|iso-8859-1)\?/ | > describe NON_ASCII_ENC_SUBJ Non-ASCII encoded subject | > | > It just does EUC Korean, Big5 Chinese and ISO Western encodings now, | > but it's easy enough to add other encodings. | | Actually, iso-8859-1 is for English.
It is for Western Europe. US-ASCII is a proper subset of all the ISO and UTF-8. | Also, some non-spam mail programs unwittingly use iso-8859-1 | encoding in the Subject: line for plain old ASCII. Though I agree with your point that most english-only stuff uses iso-8859-1 anyways. | This US/English-specific approach is fundamentally broken. spamassassin | should be able to figure out the predominant MIME encoding of emails and | score uncommon ones differently. Right. See CHARSET_FARAWAY for a starting point. -D -- How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 John 3:1 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk