Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 07 Feb 2002 06:12:16 -0600 | From | Pete Cervasio <> | Subject | Re: ????????????????????? |
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At 03:44 AM 2/7/2002 -0800, David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com> wrote: > From: Bruce Harada <bruce@ask.ne.jp> > Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 20:12:43 +0900 > > On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:42:17 -0500 > Brian <hiryuu@envisiongames.net> wrote: > > > To my knowledge, there is no English word that would match that regex (or, > > for that matter, any Romantic or Germanic language word). It's the most > > effective tool I've seen against Asian spam (like the one I replied to). > > Just to set the record straight, that was RUSSIAN spam, not Asian spam... > (The regex should still be effective, of course.) > >Except that it would block out uuencoded patches in postings perhaps? >Or is it just supposed to be matched in the Subject field or other >parts of the headers?
Um... no, it's just supposed to look at several characters in a row that have the high bit set. Have another cup of coffee and think about what happens to attachments after they're uuencoded. :)
Best regards, Pete C.
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