2000-11-05
If what you say is true, then Earthlink's "spam" filter is not working.
Because I do get a lot of unsolicited advertisements. And some is sexual in
nature. Just think how many other's are getting the same stuff. Maybe HTML
was a problem in the days of slow computers where every second connected
cost $$$ to the user, but those days are past. Even if it takes a few more
seconds to download an HTML document, so what? When you pay a monthly fee
for unlimited service, where is the hardship? And if you don't like what
you see, how hard is it to click on "delete" and send it to your own
circular file?
What you need is to obtain a program if available that sends all the
unwanted HTML and other undesired effects to the recycle bin before you see
them. And all you get is plain text.
Just, one thing, I set my browser for plain text, but I make no extra effort
to undo someone else's HTML if I respond to it.
John
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Brad Ackerman
> Sent: Sunday, 2000-11-05 21:42
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9019] RE: eia-310 availability
>
>
> On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 20:50:29 -0500, kilopascal wrote:
>
> >I'm confused. Every day I get at least 10 unsolicited e-mails containing
> >all kinds of advertisement. Most come in HTML. Now, If I'm
> getting these,
> >others must also be getting something similar. So, how do these
> so-called
> >HTML-challenged people cope? They must be all on the verge of
> massive heat
> >attacks from the stress and anger of having to constantly deal
> with garble.
>
> Fairly simple: any mail with a content type of text/html or encoding of
> Big5[1] gets routed to a spam folder for filing (of the circular variety)
> or complaining at my leisure. I've yet to see a message containing both
> meaningful content and HTML encoding, and I've been using email since
> well before HTML was invented.
>
> >But, they get no sympathy from me. I said it here a many times: UPGRADE.
> >There is a lot of free software out there that is HTML friendly. If you
> >aren't willing to upgrade, that is your problem. Quit trying to make the
> >rest of us take the extra steps to accommodate those who refuse
> to change.
>
> If I wanted to allow other users to email me with blinking text and
> dingbats, I might consider it. Otherwise, the best email software (such
> as Powermail) omits HTML support for a reason -- it belongs in web
> browsers, not email clients.
>
> [1] On the assumption that anyone emailing me will do so in a language
> that they know I speak (English, German, Japanese); thus, any messages
> not in ASCII, ISO-8859-(1|15), ISO-2022, ShiftJIS, JIS, EUC or UTF-8 are
> guaranteed to be spam.
>
> --
> Brad Ackerman N1MNB "[GWB is] prissy, arrogant, brittle, not
> terribly bright,
> Wandering Gweep and if he gets anywhere near the White House
> the damage
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] he will do the country will, I believe, be
> *substantial*."
> PGP: 0x62D6B223 -- J. Michael Straczynski, on r.a.s.t.b5.moderated
>
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