Re: spam in this newsgroup

[Karl Chen]

I can't read Korean either but the html renders in my newsreader and these
are all very obviously spam (flashing pictures, links, etc.).

--
Karl

"Ralf Fassel" <ralfixx@gmx.de> wrote in message
ygawuuux45c.fsf@jupiter.akutech-local.de">news:ygawuuux45c.fsf@jupiter.akutech-local.de...
> I see _lots_ of posts in this group containing `unusual' charsets like
>     Content-Type: text/html; charset="ks_c_5601-1987"
> and since I'm not fluent in far-east, I wonder whether these are
> people from Korea posting genuine emacs-related questions in their own
> language or whether this is plain spam.  I don't see that much of it
> in other (even emacs-related) groups, how come g.e.b. is swamped by
> this?  Again, I don't mean to offend anybody, and if I'm just being
> ignorant about the world opening up, please forgive me ;-)
>
> R'