What makes the knuckleheads overseas think that their constant bombardment of messages in Chinese, Korean, Russian or Hungarian has even a remote chance of doing anything but making me (and lots of others) mad? On an average day I get over 100 messages in unreadable fonts. I wonder if they're really trying to communicate with me? Could these be fans or bill collectors? Sure, I expect they're stupid spammers trolling for the odd Chinese-reading soul out in the ether somewhere. Yup, they're using those bulk mailing lists that don't bother to differentiate between those that read their language and those that don't--or they don't care. It doesn't cost any more to send to a billion random addresses than it does to send it to one. I just wish Outlook or some layer up the line would just destroy that junk instead of clogging up my system with their jibberish. I get quite enough crap as it is.
What's going to happen is just that. ISPs are going to start figuring out that their customers don't need (or want) mail sent to them in specific character sets and they'll stop forwarding them (on request). The spammers are going to force the entire world to radically change how we exchange information. Microsoft etal. need to do a lot more--not just beat their chest. I guess they're too busy defending themselves from foreign governments and fifedoms who want a piece of the pie to bother with things that really matter.
Just my $.02.
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