From: Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: yogurt (way off topic)
Date: 12 Apr 2004 20:54:26 -0400
Date: 2004-04-12T20:54:26-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.246.1081817675.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <107m761funrt240@corp.supernews.com>
"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> "Stephen Leake" <stephen_leake@acm.org> wrote in message
> news:mailman.239.1081689176.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org...
> > "Kate Macdonald" <fjarhat@rmdavis.com> writes:
> >
> > > dear Comp.lang.ada (Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:44:18 +0100)
> > > heath crumble council circlet clarity innuendo
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why people post these random
> > noise things? They don't seem to be selling anything. What is the
> > point?
>
> You must have an HTML filter in place. The HTML portion of that
> message was an ad for a phony drug store.
Yes, I read with Emacs Gnus. It lets me know about valid MIME
attachments, but throws away anything else. So I did not see the ad.
That makes more sense, that there is an ad in an HTML part. But they
should at least follow the email standards, if they want the widest
audience to see them!
--
-- Stephe
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2004-04-11 13:12 ` yogurt (way off topic) Stephen Leake
2004-04-11 14:02 ` Samuel Tardieu
2004-04-12 3:34 ` Wes Groleau
2004-04-12 22:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-04-13 0:54 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2004-04-13 5:11 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-04-13 1:02 ` Russ
2004-04-13 1:19 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-04-14 18:26 ` Robert I. Eachus
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