[H-GEN] Thunderbird and ISO8859-1 encoding

David Duffy david at audiovisualdevices.com.au
Sun May 28 22:57:35 EDT 2006


David de Groot wrote:
> David Duffy wrote:
>> Thunderbird seems to use ISO8859-1 encoding by default which has been
>> seen as undesirable (spam) to a few government departments that we deal
>> with.
>>
>> The IT department of one of them has told us that it was the encoding
>> that was triggering their spam filters. They have since added us to
>> their white list but I can't possibly get them all to do that.
>>
>> Is it worth changing to something else (Unicode UTF-8) to make our
>> outgoing email any more friendlier?
>>   
> Isn't 8859-1 the standard "Western" character encoding ?  as in the
> default ISO encoding for most English speaking Western nations ?
>
> I actually get more spam using UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding (mostly from
> non-English speaking countries).  It just seems odd that one would
> pick 8859-1 as a spam trigger.

Must be a government department thing! Looks like the required action is
no action on this one. :-)
David...

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