A recent one had an email root address matching a Taiwan friend, so I infer they are coming from there. they have the same 'appearance' I find when looking at Chinese web pages, suggesting that yes, they are intended to be Chinese characters but mis-handled.
Perhaps there is a short set of typical characters, that an email filter could catch. I have taken to manually deleting them before reading, but that won't work well for a newsgroup. Jay "E. Jacquelin Dietz" wrote: > We (our systems administrator and I) have been mystified by the recent > glut of these messages too. Most of them seem to come from Asian > countries, so I presume the problem has something to do with the mapping > of Asian character sets. I know there have also been lots of problems > with spam and viruses on EdStat; we are working on solutions. Soon we > will announce some changes in the administration of the list that should > solve some of these problems. > > Jackie Dietz > Listowner, EdStat > > Ronny Richardson wrote: > > > > I've started receiving messages like the following from the newsgroup. Is > > this a problem with the newsgroup or a problem with my mail program? > > > > Ronny Richardson > > > > At 02:02 PM 1/31/02 +0800, you wrote: > > >Áè2¨ÅÆ01713»·±£?ÍÍòÄÜ*º > > > > > >2úÆ·*éÉÜ > > >´«Í3µÄ*ÒÍ¥x°ÊÎx°è«£¬ÃÅ¡¢´°¡¢*Ò*ß¡¢xÀ¡¢ÒΡ¢´2¡¢1ñ¡¢Ïä°ü¡¢µØ°åµÄÖÆx÷Óö€Ã?¡¢é > > -- > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > E. Jacquelin Dietz (919) 515-1929 (phone) > Department of Statistics, Box 8203 (919) 515-1169 (FAX) > North Carolina State University > Raleigh, NC 27695-8203 USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Street address for FedEx: > Room 210E Patterson Hall, 2501 Founders Drive > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > ================================================================= > Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the > problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > ================================================================= -- Jay Warner Principal Scientist Warner Consulting, Inc. 4444 North Green Bay Road Racine, WI 53404-1216 USA Ph: (262) 634-9100 FAX: (262) 681-1133 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.a2q.com The A2Q Method (tm) -- What do you want to improve today? ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
