From: Jeffrey Carter <spam@spam.com>
Subject: Re: GC, existed? the foreigner
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:23:34 GMT
Date: 2004-01-17T01:23:34+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <q80Ob.12381$1e.7181@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wccllo7sf2b.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com>
Robert A Duff wrote:
> What I find confusing is that many of these messages contain nothing but
> gibberish. I thought the purpose of SPAM was to send advertising, and
> I've seen some containing ads plus gibberish, which I understand. But
> why would folks want to send pure gibberish. (Both kinds are equally
> annoying!)
Probably the payload is an image, and you've got an e-mail reader that
doesn't display images, or you've told it not to display images (as I've
done with Mozilla). The gibberish is in the text part of the message,
which you see; the ad is in the image, which you don't.
--
Jeff Carter
"Brave Sir Robin ran away."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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2004-01-15 20:50 ` GC, existed? the foreigner Adam Beneschan
2004-01-16 1:59 ` Jeffrey Carter
2004-01-16 2:26 ` Christopher Browne
2004-01-16 21:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-16 22:29 ` Robert A Duff
2004-01-17 1:23 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2004-01-17 5:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-01-17 17:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-01-17 14:52 ` Christopher Browne
2004-01-17 22:11 ` tmoran
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