procmail recipe [was: FAQ: Asian spam]

[Clint Adams]

> First reply???  I don't have it.  I've checked my spam-unreadable folder 
> and have nothing from you in there.

No, you got it.

> What wording would you suggest?

I would avoid implying an absolute correspondence between charset and
language.
 
> Given my limited linguistic abilities, nobody I know would ever use an 
> asian character set to communicate with me.  All the mail I've received in 
> chinese, japanese, or korean has been totally meaningless and I've been 
> willing to consign it to my spam-unreadable folder.  Certainly it is 
> unreadable.  I'll never know whether it's spam or not.

Well, the attached message would get consigned to your unreadable
folder, no?  It's not always within the user's power to set the charset.
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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 03:39:20 +0800 (CST)
From: "*"<friend at example.com>
To: Clint <schizo at debian.org>
Subject: asia trip
X-Priority: 3



 Hey, I'm in an Internet cafe in Beijing.  Patience and I are heading to
Xi'an tomorrow, and then we leave China for Kuala Lumpur.  We're
probably going to take a detour through Singapore at some point.  Do you
want me to pick you up any hardware?

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