> Re: CS> Please Turn Off The HTML > From: d.linen > Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 15:17:47
> This is all really interesting, Mike. I've been wondering why when > I've tried to read a particular email from a company, that it > tried to open a webpage. It doesn't fully open; the page is empty. > I can't see any html but there is something in those emails that > cause this to happen. > DL Hah! They got your interest with an intriguing subject line to get you to click on the message. There's nothing there. They only want to verify your email address is active so they can sell it to spammers. These guys are crooks and liars. Never believe anything they tell you, and never click on an email message from someone you don't know. Get a really simple, dumb word processor that doesn't respond to html or macros. Open the email message and look at it. If it doesn't look like something you might receive from a friend, delete it. I've looked at various antispam programs, such as reviewed by PCWorld at http://www.pcworld.com/resource/printable/article/0,aid,109698,00.asp Most of these programs are useless. They are slow and have terrible error rates. Anything less than 100% accuracy means you risk losing an important message. Until they achieve the speed and accuracy of my software, I think you are all suffering the consequence of lousy programming. I don't mind if an occasional spammer comes up with a new technique that gets through my filters. That is easy to fix. But I find that none of the available programs have the capability of detecting some of the new tricks. If you are a programmer and can read Pascal, I keep a copy of the latest source for my program at http://www3.sympatico.ca/add.automation/misc/spa2e921.zip And here is a typical log file: Tue May 13 2003, 11:27:16 Total number of bytes = 37,905 Elapsed Time = 0.012091 sec Number of Good msgs = 2 Number of SPAM msgs = 6 Number of Good bytes = 25,686 Number of SPAM bytes = 12,219 Messages/Second = 662 Bytes/Second = 3,134,924 I haven't had a single error in many weeks. Match that speed and accuracy with your program! Best Regards, Mike Monett -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
