D. Stussy wrote:

Date: 05 Apr 2004 02:46:17 GMT
From: Steve Robeson K4CAP
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.policy
Subject:
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Nice title. WTF does it say? [Also, since the first 128 characters of this
character set happens to be the same as ASCII, why need encode it in the first
place?]



It's an encode of some language that is not normally supported by ASCII,
like Chinese
or Japanese. "ISO-8859" is likely the spec for what the code means.

I get a lot of spam that looks like this. I suppose the spambots can't
tell what
ethnic group I belong to from my email address. "wa2ise" isn't a normal
name,
and the spambots don't know about ham call signs.

Likely its a Ponzi scheme to sell Viagra perscriptions to spend $5 to
make $5M. ;-)