[cups.general] Chinese users, use UTF-8, or at least GB18030

[Bob Rosenberg]

At 18:59 -0400 on 09/15/2006, Michael Sweet wrote about Re: 
[cups.general] Chinese users, use UTF-8, or at least GB:

>Ambrose Li wrote:
>>  On 15/09/06, Michael Sweet <mike at easysw.com> wrote:
>>>  We get a LOT of SPAM in EUC-CN, and since we don't speak Chinese and
>>>  don't do business in China, we block EUC-CN messages.
>>
>>  The only problem with this is that this server hosts cups at easysw.com
>>  which is a mailing list for USERS, and some users are going to be
>>  Chinese.
>
>and the lists a English language lists...
>
>>  Some people put their Chinese name in "From". So when a Chinese person
>>  tries to send a question (or when someone tries to reply to a Chinese
>>  person), the posting is blocked if the software defaults to GB2312 for
>>  Chinese.
>  > ...
>
>We're not going to change our message filters, sorry.

Can't you meet these users halfway by allowing GB2312 in the From but 
blocking it when it occurs in the MIME CHARSET? I've seen lots of 
Email with USASCII Charsets but a q-encoded From name so there IS a 
difference you can key off.
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Bob Rosenberg
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