From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,626842fa695f2fdf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-16 17:23:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.alt.net!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GC, existed? the foreigner References: <100glfb4e45iof0@corp.supernews.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 01:23:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.16.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1074302614 63.184.16.164 (Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:23:34 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:23:34 PST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4476 Date: 2004-01-17T01:23:34+00:00 List-Id: 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 59