FW: A filtering question, not taxonomy

[Mary Barkworth]

I am hoping that this will contain the correct version of the code that
Curtis sent. It may not.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Clark [ mailto:jcclark at csupomona.edu]
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 12:21 PM
To: Mary Barkworth
Subject: Re: A filtering question, not taxonomy


At 07:46 2002.12.29, you wrote:
>Does anyone know of a program that stops software using a non-roman
>alphabet?  I would really like to stop receiving emails in, I think,
>Korean.

I get maybe 20 Korean spams a day, and two or three from Taiwan each
week.
In Eudora, I filter on ±¤°í in the subject (which is what the Korean
word
for "advertisement" looks like when rendered in Latin-1), on
ks_c_5601-1987
in any header line (it is a common Korean character set), and co.kr in
the
"from" field (although Korean spammers, like those elsewhere, often
forge
email addresses). That seems to get about 75% of the spam, but for some
reason, Eudora forces me to filter around half of it manually (it
survives
the automatic scan). So I'd be glad to learn of a better solution, too.

Btw, Google now translates Korean to English. A quick check showed that
my
Korean spam is about equally divided between porn sites and household
appliances.

>I cannot even figure out where the "remove me from this list"
>information is.

*Never* reply to a "remove me from this list" that comes from an unknown
source. The reply is a confirmation that the email address is active,
and
can be sold to other spammers for a higher amount. A small number of the
Korean spams have an automatic return receipt requested, but fortunately
Eudora lets me reply "never".


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