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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Russell Allen
russell.allen at firebirdmedia.com
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