On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:52:40AM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:02:46AM -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: > > ...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. > The right thing to do is to accept these messages and discard them, rather > than returning an error. That way you don't get unsubscribed from anything, > and you also don't generate a lot of unhelpful additional traffic for > postmasters around the world (spam generally does not have a useful return > address).
I don't generate bounces; I reject them during the SMTP transaction. I do not believe that silently discarding spam is a Good Idea. It's nothing more than automation of hitting the delete key, which does nothing to solve the spam problem. I can whitelist the linux-390 mailing list...but how many folks here can handle those character sets? Displaying them as ASCII is no answer, as it shows up as unreadable garbage. I would argue that sending traffic in a character set that almost nobody can display properly is just plain being unneighborly, not to mention drastically reducing one's chances of getting the answers one seeks.
