[Xitami] RE: TEST

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} xitami@lists.xitami.org
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:36:20 +0100


In message <191.233fc6e.299c32a4@aol.com> Marie180@aol.com writes:

> Oh well, just add it to all the other junk in my email box!  

Yep; along with the totally unnecessary duplication of YOUR post, where
your so-called mailer has sent the whole text in both ASCII *and* in
HTML:

> --part1_191.233fc6e.299c32a4_boundary
> Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> 
> <HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=2>Um, perhaps I am misinterpreting the meaning of "spam", but I got an email from the xitami list titled "Credit Card Debt Solutions" that was definitely spam.&nbsp; Unless of course credit card debt has somet
hing to do with the xtami server? ;-) <BR>
> <BR>
> Cracked me up acutally because right at the end of the ad it says "we strongly oppose the use of SPAM email and do not want anyone who does not wish to receive our mailing to receive them"<BR>

[snip]

Please adjust your mailer's settings so that it sends ONLY in pure ASCII
(except to those with whom you have previously arranged to exchange HTML
mails).  Mail written in HTML should be for consenting adults only.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of
    distributed ignorance.  And we know and understand less while being incr-
    easingly capable."              Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs