[SpamCop-List] Re: Encoded subject line

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"Steven Maesslein" <nobody at nowhere.invalid> wrote in message news:slrncuhpd7.mr.nobody at 127.0.0.1...
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:21:03 -0500, Kenneth Brody coughed into spamcop
> and left this in <41E7FF7F.55F798BD at spamcop.net>:
>
> > The "?B?" following the "=?utf-8" means that it is BASE64 encoded.
>
> It's also a sure-fire spam sign. An MUA will encode only the characters
> that aren't 7bit ascii, and it'll encode them using the quoted-printable
> method (=?character_set?q?......?=)
>

I beg to differ, although I used to think that myself.  I
once got a real e-mail from someone I know with a
subject that was encoded possibly as a result of
passing through a few strangely configured corporate
gateways (sendmail to Exchange and back vaguely
comes to mind.)  Ever since, I've had to check the
rest of the message.  (Although I do notice that most
of these encoded subject lines also have forged
real names in the To: line next to my address.)

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