>The following is what appears to have caused the rejection for the last 
>two messages
>from Yahoo groups.
>
>They failed the headers check snippet: "iso-.*-jp"

then remove it


>Google search seems to tell me this is used to tell the browser about
>the character set used?

yep

>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-US-ASCII
>
>Obviously the JP charset is what is being sent to IMG or it wouldn't
>reject it.
>
>What is the reasoning behind including the "iso-.*-jp" as a reject in
>the headers?

lotsa spam from jp to north american MXs that had now .jp correspondents, 
sam e with .ru, .kr,  but if you have traffic with .jp, then remove the filter.

>What is the downside or relative risk to removing this particular
>pattern from the headers check?

you might get some more spam, but .jp hasn't been to bad recently.

if you the that  "/(string)/   message, $1" trick, you and maybe the 
rejected senders will see more easily what did the reject

Len


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