Ann, you are seeing some raw email header encoding stuff that would normally have been translated for you into either normal or so-called extended characters. That you are seeing these strings in this form indicates that they may be malformed somehow and Thunderbird cannot make them visible in their intended form. As PJ says, spammer QC is very poor.
<avert-eyes> Technically they are (or should be) RFC 2047 MIME Message Header Extensions. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt -- if you want to read chapter and verse. The header information character set is UTF-8 (a universal character encoding that handles all common human languages) and encoded in BASE64 (a compact way of sending 8-bit data through a 7-bit channel using only "readable" ASCII characters. </avert-eyes> It would be problematic to filter on them because you normally can only filter on the final unencoded email "payload". If as I suspect these are malformed (or broken) headers, then some systems might let you filter on them and some might not. There is probably information in some of the other headers that you haven't shown us from this mail that you could filter on. On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Ann Sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote: > > I printed this from my email and then scanned to get a jpg > > http://annsan.smugmug.com/Other/Stuff-to-show-PDML-for-various/4796533_2JPwqh/1/2580849905_x6FRGxP/Large > > read caption under it for what I know and the problem > > hmmmm > > > ann > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
