It's a global mailing list -- people will send messages using their default character set. LISTSERV has no business rejecting syntactically valid and properly tagged mail -- it's the job of the client to deal with it as best it can -- if your mail reader can't handle it properly, then it should display it in ASCII with the note that it couldn't cope.
If we ban non-Roman languages, we'll lose Shimon and the Israelis too, and they're handy to have around...ditto with Sergey and the Eastern Europeans. I get Cyrillic and Hebrew mail all the time -- it's actually pretty cool that it DOES work for Chinese and Korean. Pine and Eudora cope pretty well with non-Roman mail, as do the MS products, surprisingly enough. Elm deals well if the OS supports it (even on OS X for the Mac). MAILBOOK goes the route of flag and cope. kmail does OK if the OS has support, otherwise it goes with flag and cope. Laurel on the Xerox D-machine just grins and says "traditional or big5?"... -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jay > Maynard > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 9:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: I got unsubscribed... > > > ...because my mailer rejects any messages with a character > set of BIG5, > EUC-KR, or KS_C_5601-1987. I got three of those in the past few days. > > Those character sets are for Chinese and Korean, languages I > (and, I suspect > most folks on this list) can't even display correctly, much > less read. (I > read mail on several different systems, not all of them > Linux, so a Linux > solution to the display problem won't help.) I don't believe > people should > be sending mail to the list in those character sets, and I do > not believe > the list should be passing them through to users. Is there a > Listserv option > to disable those messages? >
