At 08:54 PM 6/21/2003 -0500, gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com> wrote:
>At 6:12 PM -0500 6/20/03, gep2(_at_)terabites(_dot_)com wrote:
>>I think you ought to let the READER be the judge of what the READER
finds the
>>most readable... based on THEIR screen, THEIR vision, THEIR color
preferences,
>>THEIR screen resolution, etc etc.
>
>This battle was fought and lost with HTML web sites. Why do you
>think you'll have any more luck winning it with email?
[..]
>And all to bring about a change that spammers can adapt to in less
>than a week.
Changing to plain ASCII text E-mail will get the mail past THAT level, but it
will (again) deny them the great majority of their most cherished tricks, AND
make their stuff more readily filtered by content filters. It makes it
harder
for spammers to confuse, deceive, and trick their victims. So even when
spammers "adapt", they _never_ get back to what they had before.
Keep in mind that while you reducing these things, nevertheless in the end
of the day there is still the same number of emails in the user's email inbox.
[..] What we're trying to do is to put a crimp in
their gears, and to make life more difficult for spammers and abusers.
As for those who seem so determined to prevent that from happening... one
has to
wonder what their true agenda actually is, and whose side they're on.
[..]
There is no reason to get personal, we are all fighting the same enemy and
are all on the same side.
Yakov
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