Spam From Japanese Brain dead Spamers

[Christopher Faylor]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 05:11:58PM +0200, Alexander Gottwald wrote:
>On Sun, 5 Aug 2001, Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
>>Recently Cygwin and Cygwin-xfree ML had become a convenient target from
>>JAPANESE Spammers.  Can we not simply block these idiots if the Subject
>>line contains Japanese characters?
>
>I would like to, but how make sure we do not block normal users?
>
>Since this a english ML, we might reject all messages, that have
>non-ascii characters (128-255) or set another character encoding (koi8,
>jis, ibm850...) on the subject line.  An english message should not
>contain this.  If it's set, then the message is likely to be not
>readable by the most readers on the ml.
>
>If the message is rejected, a message should be sent to the sender
>since it might be regular message.  The spammers often never read
>responses to their spam but regular users will read direct responses to
>their mail.
>
>Please tell me if I've missed some important issues...

Sigh.  As usual, the complaints and "good ideas" about spam are just as
annoying as the spam itself.

cgf