[Mimedefang] Rejecting Cyrillic

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Friday, April 17, 2009 9:34 PM -0400 "David F. Skoll" 
<dfs at roaringpenguin.com> wrote:

> Except UTF-8 penalizes those character sets that need two, three, ...
> bytes to encode many of their characters.  For this reason, I expect all
> the weird and wonderful legacy encodings to survive.

Given that we have to suffer the proliferation of bad (ie. verbose) HTML in 
email, is tripling the size of the payload that high a cost? (It might be 
interesting to see how much no-op HTML markup is in the average message.)