Re: Funky HARP Spam

[RW]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 14:21:33 -0600
Philip Prindeville wrote:


> Here’s the other thing I don’t get.
> 
> The message claims to be 7-bit and text/plain, yet it uses encoded
> characters which exceed 7-bit widths yet this doesn’t seem to be
> firing any rules either.
> 
> &#x042C would seem to be at least an 11-bit wide character.

You are mixing-up different levels of encoding. The characters
&,#,x,0,4,2 and C are all 7-bit ASCI, and so are consistent with
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit.

The previous mime section is more problematic since it appears to
contain 8-bit data.