At 09:18 PM 11/29/01 +0800, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have a problem when users use Netscape to post a double byte word post,
>which is Chinese in my case. When I use DNEWS Admin tool or web based tool
>to read the newsgroup, the subject will changed to something like this:
>
>Re: =?big5?B?W7P4plddrFCzpS2vtbFLpKe3Ury+?=
>
>but users using Outlook Express doesn't have any problem, I can see the
>Chinese words.
>
>This problem affected the whole SPAM Protection engine, as all Chinese
>words changed to
>those funny characters, I can't simply filter the Chinese word, but I need
>to find out "how funny would those words I wanted to block looks like in
>DNEWS".
>
>Which mean, if I want to block the word "sex", I just can't block it by
>typing it
>into the filter, I need to check what it become in DNEWS, maybe it's
>Et46y8i...
>
>I hope you understand what I mean.
>
>So... how do I solve this problem? Please kindly advice, thanks!
Basically when you post using a multi byte font the characters are encoded
by your news client before they are sent, so essentially you need to post a
bunch of messages
with each offending word and then put the 'encoded' version of the words
in the filter.
Sorry there isn't any simple work around.
ChrisP.
