Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 14:11:06 -0400
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> Can something be done about that?  Some filter that looks at the
> charset= header, together with 8-bit characters in the body, comes to
> mind (no one in their right mind would post in Russian here).  But
> maybe there's something else we could do.

The filters let about 1% of the spam through.  It's impossible to
block it all without limiting posts to only subscribers, which I'd
rather not do - friendliness to newcomers being more important to me
than the occasional off-topic message.