Re: [vps-mail] IS0-8859 spams slipping by SpamAssassin

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 10:02:50 -0400, "Jim Smith" <maillists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> So I understand this, is it safe to say that any message subject starting
> with encoding such as =?ISO-8859-1?b? is almost certainly either a
> non-English language or else a spammer trying to hide a spam-filled
> subject?

More likely the latter than the former. The former is much more likely to be
of the form =?ISO-8859-1?q?.......?= (note the "q" rather than the "b",
denoting quoted-printable encoding instead of base64).

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