[JA] Re: What's this in "Subject" line?
- From: bob.in.jersey@xxxxxxxx
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:19:39 EST
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 09:51:19 PST, babette bloch wrote:
> I got 2 messages from a friend, with the Subject line beginning
> with Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?, followed by a bunch of gobbly-gook.
> The characters after the "=?iso...." are different in each
> message.
This happens in some instances when characters other than [A-Z],
[a-z], and [0-9] appear in the subject or sometimes in the e-mail
address of the sender. When it occurs depends on the sender's ISP
and the intermediate steps it takes to get to the list server and
ultimately to you.
> Then I noticed that I got two spam messages with the Subject line
> reading =@iso-8859-1?b?, but the chearacters that follow are
> different in each spam message.
In these cases the subject has been partially or completely encoded
using base-64 coding. The usual reason behind this is to prevent
other people's ISPs from spam-blocking the message because of
objectionable words.
Hope this helps.
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