Article: 7626 of alt.peeves From: emr@idiom.com (Elaine Richards) Newsgroups: alt.peeves Subject: Re: Gook Spam Date: 9 Apr 2002 18:18:47 -0700 Organization: Unknown Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <3cb38c04.50674632@news.teranews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: idiom.com X-Trace: news.idiom.com 1018401528 32966 216.240.32.1 (10 Apr 2002 01:18:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@idiom.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Apr 2002 01:18:48 GMT Path: news.meer.net!sea-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.nyc.globix.net!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!216.218.192.242!news.he.net!news.kjsl.com!news.idiom.com!not-for-mail Xref: archive.mv.meer.net alt.peeves:7626 In article <3cb38c04.50674632@news.teranews.com>, brojack wrote: [Spam from Asia in funny charsets] >the sender. And tech support tells me to put a filter block on the >offending words. WHAT WORDS? IT'S WRITTEN IN ASIAN HIEROGLYPHICS!! Filter on "Content-Type". I use procmail and here is an excerpt from my .procmailrc. Some of the entries may be incorrect, but I am sure someone like OBob or Charlie can provide corrected examples. Certain charsets are just jibber-jabber on an English speaker's screen... :0 * ^Content-Type:.text/html;.charset=euc-kr /dev/null :0: * ^Content-Type:.text/html;.charset="big5" /dev/null :0: * ^Content-Type:.text/html;.charset=.ks_c_5601-1987. /dev/null :0: * ^Content-Type:.text/html;.charset="ks_c_5601-1987* /dev/null :0: * ^Content-Type:.text/html;.charset=euc-kr* /dev/null My life got a touch better when I doped this one out. -- "I urge you strongly to do whatever you wish." Mr Bear