On Friday, May 18, 2001, at 06:32 PM, Tim Pierce wrote:
> In a moderate defense of that practice, I must point out that
> searching for the word "bulk" in X-Mailer and Received headers can
> seem like an incredibly good way of finding dumb spammers.
I know. That's why I changed the headers. However, if those admins
actually thought that spammers were too stupid to change their headers,
they get what they deserve....
> whoa! This is supposed to be the part where you tell all us dinosaurs
> to get rid of our C64s and embrace the new technology like you have!
> Have I slipped into a parallel universe or something? :-)
>
There's embracing new technology, and there's embracing it blindly.
Right now, my marketing lists are overwhelmingly HTML and users (with a
really tiny group loudly taking exception) want it that way.
On my discussion lists, the users are satisfied with plain text, as long
as they don't have to poke their client to cooperate with the server.
When the server does the work, that's good enough. There's definite
interest in HTML and styled text, but in the groups I deal with, what
they NEED is 8 bit characters and internationalized character sets, so
that's what's going to get done before I do any serious mime-tweaking.
HTML and styled text is a lower priority (on my project board, there's
"like to have", "want to have", "must have" and "dammit, you promised me
this last week" -- HTML and styled text is currently a nice to have...)
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