No, I didn't say it correctly. There is a message in the email but something in the email tries to load a webpage. It's the webpage that's empty or blank, not the email.
DL Mike Monett wrote: > > Repost - Sorry if this turns out to be a duplicate, but I think > sympatico ate the first one:) > > > 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]>
