[Hidden-tech] Drum Roll Please.... As another spammer walks tothefinancial guillotine

[Tom / Reelife Productions]

yep.  with google, it's just one click...delete-all-spam-forever.  every
month or so, I go to my spam box and delete all 6,000 spam (that I've never
seen before) with just one  click....very satisfying experience...
Regards,
Tom Adams
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:47 PM, ussailis at shaysnet.com <
ussailis at shaysnet.com> wrote:

>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> Since I have had an email acct (about 1992) I have never read email using a
> "client" on my computer. I always read it from the server. Until the past
> two years, I just struggled thru HTML code, or deleted HTML email without
> reading it.
>
> I could never figure out why Mr Bill caused such a program like Outlook to
> change 2 lines of text into over 990 lines of code. Yes, I actually counted
> one of these. My "990 lines" could be off by a reasonable error amount, but
> the two lines of text is not.
>
> Read on the server? Up to 1996 I used a VAX and "Mail." From then to 2006 I
> used Telnet & Pine. Now I generally use www.mail2web.com (and ocassionally
> go to HTML because there is no other text format), or use Putty to get to
> the server, and again, use Pine.
>
> www.mail2web.com supports either format.
>
> What's fun about all this is to look for the hidden pixel, or find the neat
> way that phishers get the sucker to go to their web site that looks exactly
> like PayPal or some bank.
>
> I have often wondered why PayPal doesn't go after them for using their
> copyright logos and info on an different site, or using the web site
> directly. Possibly PayPal isn't big enough, but Bank of America sure is.
> Assigning this to a small team effort and some lawyers would be a trivial
> cost.
>
> I have told some of my users to try www.mail2web.com. It is an excellent
> way to delete spam 100 at a time. Half dozen clicks, and gonzo.
>
>
> Jim U.
> jim at nationalwireless.com
>
> PS Yes, I agree. HTML email is just plain stoopid. Furthermore I think many
> web pages are loaded up with too much code. Often I just want to look
> something. I don't need to look at a museum's worth of pictures of pictures
> in the process.
>
>
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:27:24 -0400
> To: sreed at avacoda.com, hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
> Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Drum Roll Please.... As another spammer walks
> tothefinancial guillotine
>
>
>   ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>   ** If you did, we all thank you.
>
>
> At Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:57:02 -0400 Scott Reed <sreed at avacoda.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's
> area.
> >    ** If you did, we all thank you.
> >
> >
> > Some spam is just sent to see if the email address is valid. An HTML
> > image (could be just one white pixel) is included in the body of the
> > message and when your email client opens the message, it loads the image
> > from the spammer's server and your email address gets flagged as worthy
> > of lots more spam. You can avoid this by configuring your email client
> > not to display images without your confirmation and your subsequent
> > diligence in confirming display of images only from non-spammers.
>
> Even better: don't use an E-Mail client that displays HTML at all (or
> completely disable the display of HTML E-Mail). There is no *valid*
> reason for HTML E-Mail, and there never was.  Really.  99.9% of E-Mail
> is nowhere 'formal' enough to need or deserve 'formatting', other than
> the sort of formatting available with the space bar and/or the
> return/enter key.  Do you dig out your fancy acid-free paper and your
> calligraphy pens to scribble a note?  No, you just grab an envelope and
> scribble on the back -- most E-Mail is really just the electronic
> version of this. There are way too many ways to get 'screwed' by HTML
> E-Mail -- not only images via cgi ('web bugs'), but all sorts of fun
> with <embed> tags and JavaScript.  It also eats bandwidth big time -- a
> 100 character plain text E-Mail message can end up as 1k bytes once all
> of the HTML tags, style options, etc. are added in.
>
> >
> > ussailis at shaysnet.com [10/10/2008 9:44 PM] wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's the part that I don't get...
> > >
> > > I get a lot of spam that doesn't have an identifiable product, for
> example
> > > a "little blue pill," has no address to get this product because the
> return
> > > email line is a "no reply," and no other info, other than "male
> > > enhancement."
> > >
> > > Nor does this spam have any attachments.
> > >
> > > Now I can figure out what it is about, but what is the point? To sell
> > > something a communication method is required.
> > >
> > > What is the point of the spam? Why did someone go to the trouble of
> writing
> > > and sending it?
> > >
> > > Jim U.
> > > jim at nationalwireless.com
> > >
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