SPAM on List...

[tim.conway at philips.com]

One word of warning on assuming all html mail is bad.  Some of us are on 
corporate email systems, subject to pointless arbitrary changes to our 
settings.  About a year ago, my preferences in Lotus Notes (a bad database 
program masquerading as a worse mail program) were modified to have me 
send mail to the internet in html format.  I didn't even know it was 
happening, until i started getting nasty messages from people's mail 
systems saying my mail was being rejected because it contained html 
formatting, on which point I threw myself a message to my home address to 
verify it, and searched out the preferences setting to turn it back to 
text.... 
...Point being, if we do decide to reject all html-formatted email, let's 
have it bounce with explanation, not just fall into a black hole.
It saddens me to know that blocking all of Korea is the right thing to do. 
 Maybe if more things like this 
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227&mode=thread&tid=133 
happen, things will change.

Tim Conway 
conway.tim at spilihp.com reorder name and reverse domain 
303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell 
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D 
Longmont, CO 80501 
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, caesupport2 on AIM 
"There are some who call me.... Tim?" 









Christopher Sawtell <csawtell at paradise.net.nz>
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Greetings list admins

I'd just like to add that as almost all the SPAM I receive is HTML, a very 

effective way to get rid of a very large fraction of spam would be to 
refuse 
all HTML posts. I've not seen any genuine posts to this list which have 
been 
web pages.

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Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
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