On 2026-03-13, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 13.03.2026 o godz. 08:31:39 Julian Bradfield via mailop pisze: >> On 2026-03-13, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Most people eg. in Europe can safely filter out all emails in Asian >> > charsets >> > (Chinese, Japanese, Korean etc.), as they usually can't read these >> > languages >> > and every email in these charsets that arrives can safely be considered >> > spam >> > (I got quite a lot of them in the past). >> >> Not if they have any East Asian students, colleagues or friends. > > Why people seem to ignore the word "most" in what I wrote? ;) (even quoted > above!)
Because "most" in the pedantic sense of ">50%" is not useful in context. If 49% of people are missing out on mail because the other 51% have no Chinese acquaintance, that's not good. People, other than techies like us, do not do their own filtering - they just have whatever is given to them. Where I live, almost everybody has Chinese neighbours, colleagues, or students, as we have a large population of immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
