on Thursday, April 4, 2002, 8:31:32 AM, you wrote: > What about all the foreign character rubbish I get?
> For example, I have several with subject lines as follows: > [����]�ֽ������� �ǽð� �ְ��������α� ź�� !! > Each is slightly different but they are all unreadable. > Anyone else get this type of spam and what method do you use to get rid of it? I found this method on TBUDL. Unfortunately I don't know who posted it, so I can't give proper credit for it. 1. Copy the subject line of one of the foreign character emails. 2. For convenience, open a new message and paste the subject of step 1 into the text of the new message. All operations performed below will be performed in the message's text field. 3. Delete any characters in the subject that might conceivably be part of the subject of a message you might want to read. (Perhaps, particularly if you're British, you might not want to filter out messages with � in the subject, perhaps you would.) 4. Delete all but one occurrence of each character that is duplicated. (There are two � , delete one of them.) 5. Separate the adjacent remaining characters with pipe signs ( | ). No pipe sign at the start or end of the string, however. (Thus operating on all of the remaining characters, with an inclusive OR.) 6. Copy the pipe-sign separated string into your "foreign character rubbish" filter, with Llocation: Subject, Presence: Yes. If any message should get through the filter, work on that message's subject string in the same way. If you're particularly fussy, as I am, perhaps you'd like to eliminate any characters already present in your filter. Add the new pipe-sign-separated string to your "foreign character rubbish" filter, with location: Subject, Presence: yes. (I now have three such strings in my filter.) ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
