Re: Recent Spam

[Michael Elkins <Michael_Elkins@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 10:52:09AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
[8-bit in message header fields is not allowed by RFC822]
> 
> It isn't?  Weird.  That seems like a spec bug that's bound to get
> fixed at some point, because of course it's an english-only
> restriction that we aren't supposed to have anymore.  And perhaps my
> memory is flaky, but I would have sworn that I've seen legit mail from 
> Europe with Latin-1 characters in the headers.

I doubt this will change since you can't tell what character set the 8-bit
characters belong to.  The only way to pass that information is to use the
proper MIME encoding to translate everything to 7-bit.  This is not a question
of being US-centric.

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