On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 02:13:38 -0400 (EDT), Thomas Mueller wrote:
> <p class=MsoNormal>YES ><a
>
>href="..\..\..\..\My%20Documents\ABX%20Clients\1506%20Dream%20Makers\Marketing%20Material\[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Click
> Here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
> Sam Heywood,
> Did that part actually come as three lines broken up as illustrated, or was it
> all one line, like so:
I believe the link was all on one line.
> <p class=MsoNormal>YES ><a
>
>href="..\..\..\..\My%20Documents\ABX%20Clients\1506%20Dream%20Makers\Marketing%20Material\[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Click
>
> Here</a><o:p></o:p></p>
> This link would almost always fail if spam is viewed offline. Maybe the
> document was supposed to be viewed online, with the relative URL referring to
> the remote server? Was there a base href anywhere in the message? But then it
> seems the backslashes should have been forward slashes. Could "class" have been
> something Java-related?
The link would always fail regardless, except in the highly unlikely case
whereby the recipient happened to have the referenced file where indicated on
his own hard drive.
> Spam is not always designed for maximum readability! I received, in the same
> email download, an apparent spam in HTML from .tw top-level domain. Subject was
> an odd mess of upper-ASCII characters, as was the message within the HTML.
> Surely I wasn't seeing the message as intended, but even if I were, it would be
> just as incomprehensible, Chinese to me (literally). Charset was big5. I get
> occasional spams like that, not always HTML, apparently Chinese or Korean. I
> have no way of rendering Oriental-language fonts in DOS (maybe Linux with
> X Windows?), but wouldn't be able to read the message in any event.
I don't know why the spammers send their garbage to recipients who would not
be likely to be able to correctly render it and understand it. I also
occasionally receive spam written apparently in some oriental languages.
Regards,
Sam Heywood
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