On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
If you keep track, you'll probably find, as I have, that HTML-only
e-mail is between 99% to 100% spam.
HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people:
1. Ignorant newbies
2. Ineducable morons
3. Spammers
There are no
Changing the subject so this (hopefully) doesn't restart the endless
thread.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
If you keep track, you'll probably find, as I have, that HTML-only
e-mail is between 99%
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
If you keep track, you'll probably find, as I have, that HTML-only
e-mail is between 99% to 100% spam.
HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people:
1.
Now just a cotton picking minute...
HTML email is sent exclusively by three groups of people:
1. Ignorant newbies
2. Ineducable morons
3. Spammers
There are no exceptions. It thus, to Jim's point, an excellent
anti-spam/anti-stupidity technique to refuse all such traffic
at the MTA.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
What about clients that you are doing support for?
That's so easy to handle, I'm surprised to see it asked (at least,
if you're using procmail). You create two (or more) rc files for
procmail. For example, I have a setup that
* Dale A. Raby daler...@gmail.com [12-10-12 08:33]:
...
I appologize ahead of time for this rant, but you see, I know what a DOS
window is and I guess I'm getting ornery in my old age.
or cp/m and audio tape storage.
and *ignorance* |= stupid
but lacking in knowledge and perhaps *only*
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59:55AM -0600, David Young wrote:
One reason email software is not more useful is that because too many
smart people wage a losing war on the new, foreign ways of email instead
of programming filters that transform top-posted, red, 5000-column
emails to the style of
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:30:14AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote:
Ignorant newbies may at some point become the Michael Elkins of the
future.
They may. And that would be an entirely good thing, for them and
for all of us.
But that doesn't preclude the fact that they're ignorant newbies *today*.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:35AM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
Changing the subject so this (hopefully) doesn't restart the endless
thread.
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 06:27:42AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:44:35PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote:
If you keep track,
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote:
The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make
me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for.
Umm, in the car world yes you'd be a newbie. Don't consider it a
derogatory term. We are all
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:30:14AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote:
Not all of us are IT professionals. Some of us are blacksmiths, gun
salesmen, truck drivers, and even ecdysiasts.
Please don't group IT professionals. and
standards/ettiquette/netiquette as one.
No exceptions? Really? I seem
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