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Subject: Troublesome address
From: "Gess Shankar" <gess @ earthchannel . com>
Organization: Earth Channel Communications LLC
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 09:42:59 -0500
To: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
Comments: Authenticated sender is <gess@ec2.earthchannel.com>
Reply-to: gess @ earthchannel . com

I have a subscriber from Italy whose from: header looks like this by 
the time it gets here.

From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Albert_Fr=F6hlich_=3Coptima=40omninet.it=3E?=@domain.it

I have changed the actual domain name. 

Question is: Are MTAs and smtp servers supposed to understand
ISO-8859-1 character set? Somewhere along the line, the string has
been munged (umlaut O became =F6 for example).

I have put this address in the kill file, after advising the
postmaster of this action, as this person keeps subscribing to a
fairly high volume list and obviously mail cannot be delivered. 

Any comments on how to treat cases like this will be helpful. TIA

Gess

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Gess Shankar                                pax vobiscum                         
gess@earthchannel.com        http://www.earthchannel.com
Earth Channel Communications, LLC. 
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