From: Mike N. 

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:35:57 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>This just boggles the mind, I mean if you were trying to create secure
>application wouldn't you restrict to a least common instead of allow
>everything? Email is 7bit ascii not unicode correct? Is this somehow needed
>to allow unicode subject line where the RFC's don't allow it?

   It's to allow international and unicode character sets where RFCs allow
only 7-bit characters.  I don't recognize this format right offhand, but
spammers will try anything.   Just another place to do
fuzz/boundary/overflow testing against your E-mail client.

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