On 5/23/02 7:04 AM, "Judi Sohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 5/23/02 8:46 AM, "Art Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> The majority of the spam that I get is received displaying non-English
>> characters. Is there a way to delete these email messages out of hand?
>> -
> 
> I would *love* this. I've found out that "Sohn" is a popular Asian last
> name. I think it means "hand" in Korean. Believe me when I say that I am as
> far from Asian as you can get and still be in the same planet (my husband
> and I both are from Eastern European descent) but I guess certain spam lists
> look for characteristics in names to target their market. For every english
> spam I'm getting 3 in Japanese/Chinese/Korean. I'm sorry, I can't tell
> which. But I would love to be able to dump it all right to the trash without
> ever knowing it came in.

I think it could be done by running a suitable applescript from a rule.
looking for 'character set' property of the message. But I don't know how to
define which character set(s) to look for. I wouldn't want to dump all mail
from Windows computers or something like that in the trash.

-- 
Paul Berkowitz
P.S. My mother's maiden name was "Sohn".


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