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Re: OT: spam in this newsgroup
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Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
Re: OT: spam in this newsgroup |
Date: |
13 May 2002 06:54:08 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
>>>>> "e" == elf <elf@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:
e> Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not
e> have translators to read other languages for them.
e> To address your concerns, then, any subject-line that is entirely
e> non-latin-1 (?) can be considered spam.
OK, but it must be entirely... however, I think that even if I say
Subject: mule: I think ○ should be listed under ling2
The whole contents of the subject might become encoded even if there's
only one Chinese char...
>>>>> "R" == Ralf Fassel <ralfixx@gmx.de> writes:
R> I see _lots_ of posts in this group containing `unusual' charsets like
R> Content-Type: text/html; charset="ks_c_5601-1987"
R> and since I'm not fluent in far-east, I wonder whether these are
R> people from Korea posting genuine emacs-related questions in their own
Actually it only takes about two hours to master the Korean alphabet,
and one can then even make out words like Kleenex spelled in Korean.
R> language or whether this is plain spam. I don't see that much of it
R> in other (even emacs-related) groups, how come g.e.b. is swamped by
R> this? Again, I don't mean to offend anybody, and if I'm just being
R> ignorant about the world opening up, please forgive me ;-)
yes, Korean Kleenex has little to do with emacs. Actually I would
like folks to find better spam triggers than going the charset
direction or country of origin type direction, as one day a real user
will get his first bug "whitywalled" and never touch emacs again: Joe
from Asia's first emacs bug report somehow triggers a spam filter, Ah,
Joe says "Oh, so I come from the land of spam [ISPs], fine, sorry to
unfreshen your air, it won't happen again".
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