John's email

Russell Allen russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
Thu Mar 14 00:28:59 UTC 2002


John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:
> In case anyone emailed me from Europe (let alone Asia) and didn't get 
> a response from me, you should be aware that my ISP invoked a spam 
> rule last week to deflect eastern Asia spam that relied on blocking 
> any mail containing any unicode values. -> Content rejected.

Wow!  I am speechless.  In what possible world would blocking off all
non-english emails be considered a *good* thing?

Is this common in US ISPs?  I have never heard of it before!

Russell


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