Floppy Boot?
Kam Leo
kam.leo at gmail.com
Thu Nov 24 07:48:42 UTC 2005
On 11/23/05, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 11/23/05, V P <list307 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Aarrgh!!! I thought this was fixed.
> >
> > vjp
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: AntiSpam UOL <petsupermarket.sspam at uol.com.br>
> > Date: 24-Nov-2005 10:02
> > Subject: RE: Re: Floppy Boot?
> > To: list307 <list307 at gmail.com>
> > [snip]
> >
> > Registered Linux User #374218
> >
> > Minister of Offense, Preserver of the Way
> > of the Great Llama, Ambassador to India
> > for the Republic of Loungevania
> >
> > -
> >
> > My gmail program had the sender of this nonsense filtered until you
> > forwarded the above to the list. There is no need to forward it.
> > Please do not do this again or the list may be request to filter you
> > out too! Get a clue, take charge of your own mail client, setup a
> > gmail filter (it's really easy), send the message into the trash where
> > it belongs, and don't bother the list with petty stuff that the list
> > has no control over.
> ----
> If you want to give a clinic on how to use gmail for filtering, perhaps
> you can figure out how to have gmail send plain text email instead of
> html format.
I apologize if the previous message was sent in html format. I didn't
catch that gmail was defaulting to the sender's html encoding. I'll
be more vigilant.
>
> as for uol.com.br - it's a real nuisance and a deterrent to the list
> users - even though they can filter, they really shouldn't have to. It's
> sad that thousands of list users have to each individually create
> filters because the list admins can't figure out a solution to the
> problem.
>
There is a way and it is very simple: Write a script to send an email
to each member of the list. Sequentially number the subject field.
The challenged message will be long to the errant member.
> Craig
>
>
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