Rado S wrote: > I use lynx as html-filter for mutt. Recently I saw a spam-mail > that looked as if it was a stereogram (imagine how surprised I was > to see this in spam! ;). > After giving up finding the hidden message, I tried other > browsers, believing it was designed for some special system. > > Much to surprise and disappointment, firefox + links + w3m all > displayed the spam different from lynx, and with the new > perspective it was clear that it was _no_ stereogram but just > badly broken up table cells. > > See yourself: > http://www.ghb-hamburg.de/rado/spam.html > http://www.ghb-hamburg.de/rado/spam2.html > > Now, why do those other browsers show 2 rows as 1, so that the > spam is actually readable there while lynx shows the 2 rows as 2, > which makes it hard to recognize as spam?
That's not a bug, it's a feature! ;-} I much prefer Lynx's presentation. It is instantly obvious that it's some sort of useless spam, and as a bonus, I don't even have to sully my eyes with knowledge of what they're selling. BTW, two `w3m` versions I have laying around also fail. 0.1.11-pre (2000) looks a lot like Lynx. 0.5.1 (Cygwin, 2005) manages to integrate the stuff vertically, but spacing is still crazy, resulting in garbage like "W o rl dwi d e D i sc ree t Sh ip p in g". T he pu r vey o rs o f t h is g ar b age s ho u ld b e l i n ed up a nd sh ot. >Bela< _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
