Re: Anybody know what this means???? How do I stop it??

From: Frank Castro [MSFT] (fcastro_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 02/20/04 

Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:02:37 -0600

If you really need the e-mail (its not spam), you can find out what the
character set is and add it to your local server. For most cases, this is
unwanted mail and can/should be ignored (cuts down on some of the spam).

You can find the character set in the header of the message, in this example
its called "iso-8859-1<br>".

example: Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1<br>

Then add the value to your server by following these steps:

1. Run Regedit

2. Go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\CharSet

3. Add a new key with the value "iso-8859-1<br>" (without the quotation
marks).

4. Add new String value under the "iso-8859-1<br>" key

REG_SZ: AliasForCharset

Data: "iso-8859-1<br>" 

-- 
Regards,
Frank Castro
fcastro@online.microsoft.com
"Mark" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1400d01c3f7c3$28aa7910$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Frank, is there anything I should do about it.
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >The person who sent it (or someone the message passed
> through) is not
> >adhering to RFC standards.  If this is coming from a
> single identified
> >source, notify them that they may be using a non-
> standard character set or
> >an application that does not adhere to RFC.
> >
> >This is most common with custom made SMTP servers and is
> often tied to
> >"spam" servers.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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