Subject: unintelligible letter from russia (fwd)

From: Dan Mandell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:10:31 -0500 (EST)

I have seen discussions of alternate character sets, but have never 
encountered anything but straight ascii, until this message arrived from 
somewhere in Russia...

Any suggestions?

Dan
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From: [email-masked] (Roman Czyborra)
Date: 5 Oct 94 19:02:19 GMT

> Уважаемый Виктор Алексеевич,

This is a personal letter to Viktor Alekseyevich, it looks like it was
sent to the wrong address.

It is in the KOI8-R charset documented in RFC 1489, the original header
should have said so, you did not share it with us.  Your posting was
mislabeled as US-ASCII, I guess that's due to an imperfection of Pine's. 
We ought to be thankful to Pine for encoding the text so that it arrived
without any damage.