Re: Please remove this spamming asshole <moonjh1@xxxxxxxxxxx>

[Cosmo <cosmo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> The spams getting through seem to be mostly just those with charsets of
> euc-kr, ks_c_5601-1987 and GB2312 and content-types of text/html. So I
> spoke to Karsten again about filtering these. He then "grep'ed quite a
> bit in many list archives" and found no messages where content-type is
> text/html. I can confirm that this is also true for all messages in the
> zsh archives. So Karsten is now blocking those.
>
> Does anyone have any objections? Or has anyone identified anything
> better to filter those messages on? I seem to remember reading somewhere
> recently about hotmail now sending messages as text/html by default
> which might make the filter a bit excessive.

I would welcome both the loss of the spam and unecessary bloating of my
mail from text/html messages. Are the hotmail mesages multipart/alternative
with text/html and text/plain versions and if so, can't the mail filter
reformat the message into just text/plain (I know there are external programs
like reformime that can).

There are plenty of XXXX->html converters for all sorts of doc types but I'm
not aware of a html->text converter - everyone seems hellbent on producing
html even if just to be able to print the heading in *boldface*.





Cosmo