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--- Comment #10 from Justin Mason <[email protected]> 2010-04-07 11:53:33 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> In my opinion, __HIGHBITS is fundamentally flawed that should never exist.
> No matter using "body" rule or "rawbody" rule the message body is always
> decoded from base64 or quoted-printable. And __HIGHBITS matches streams of 
> high
> bits octets (to be exact, [one high bit octet + any character] repeated 4
> times), which is always the case for East Asian languagues.

hi -- as far as I know, the intention of __HIGHBITS is to *detect* such
charsets as the East Asian ones, so that it can be used in meta rules to avoid
false positives.

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