[LINK] another weird email thingy

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:21:34AM +1000, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> Linkers,
> sorry if this is a technical question and outside the list's purview. 
> But, I'm seeing this sort of Subject line on some emails recently:
> Subject: 
> =?iso-8859-7?B?UmU6IFtCb3JuMldyaXRlXSChcm9pZHMgLSBBIFBvZW0gLSBvciBwZXJo?=
>  =?iso-8859-7?B?YXBzIGEgY29tbWVudGFyeQ==?=

MIME encoding of the subject in order to get a different (normally 8 bit)
character set - in this case Greek.

Spammers will also sometimes use it in an attempt to get around anti-spam
software.

  Scott