I don't know what in the world your talking about, type a little more "down-to-earth" for me, just tell me "do this" or "don't do this" As for the "SpamCop filter" forget it, I was looking back through some past email's and agree with the argument that I would just be wasting my time reporting spam to "spamcop"
-- Best Regards, ~John - - - Marck D Pearlstone wrote - - - > @9-Feb-2003, 14:17 -0600 (20:17 UK time) ~John [j] in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I have reformatted this message without the top posting because it > is harder to work out what's going on in a vacuum. Please see below > for a lecture on why it is preferable to *not* do that in this list. > In terms of list rules you've ended up with far too many untrimmed > quotes and not enough context. > To put it succinctly - this is how your conversation appears: > Terrible >> how does it smell? >>> My dog's got no nose. > Anyway - back to the topic: PM>>>>>> I'd like to submit my login name and password automatically PM>>>>>> along with the URL. Any ideas if/how I could do that? > (I have a new method to solve this and will reply further up the > thread). > ... <snip> >>> I hit the keyboard shortcuts Ctrl+Alt+S and it put the message in the >>> outbox, then I sent them, however I got this error message back from >>> Spamcop: >>> "SpamCop encountered errors while saving spam for processing: >>> SpamCop could not find your spam message in this email:" j>> Is this how the reply template supposed to be setup? > ... <snip> > Your reply template has nothing to do with SpamCop submission, which > uses a custom template built into the manual, hotkey triggered > filter. If you have installed the filter correctly, it will format > the message correctly. > ** Stock essay about top posting. ** > Top posting means that you put the cursor at the top of a reply and > type everything you want to say there. > Top posted replies make messages harder to read than they should be. > When you are having a private conversation and you know what you're > saying to an individual top posting has a certain validity (I still > don't do it - I don't find it at all pleasant to read that way, but > this isn't about my personal preferences). > When you are in an environment where many readers and many topics > are present at once, you force everyone to read your reply text > (because it's at the top, it's seen first), think to themselves > "What's that about then?", scroll down to read the quotes for > context, think "Oh, I see... now I know what it's about, does that > change anything in what I read first?", and scroll back up to read > what you wrote in the light of improved context. > It's much easier for the writer, yes. But email should be designed > for the reader. > A reply works better broken down conversationally: - - - End of Marck D Pearlstone's message - - - ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
