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No good spamming bastards are using new tricks to get by the filters

2003-01-19 11:28:00
Hey folks.  I have a quick question:

How long have those stupid spammers been inserting html comments into
HTML spam to sneak by filters meant to keep them out?

And more importantly, is there a relatively easy way to filter every
HTML message thru a dump to eliminate any HTML tags?  Seems if I could
do that, those messages with stuff like this wouldn't get thru
anymore:

<center><font face="Arial,Helvetica">VP-RX PE<!--19341-->NIS <b><FONT
size=4>ENL<!--3353-->ARGEMENT</FONT></b> PI<!--21525-->LLS</font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica">WI<!--10816-->LL EXPAND
LENG<!--22376-->THEN AND ENLA<!--9966-->RGE YO<!--25470-->UR
PENIS</font>
<br><font face="Arial,Helvetica"><b><FONT
size=4>10<!--7722-->0%</FONT></b> GUARA<!--7781-->NTEED!!</font><font
face="Arial,Helvetica"></font>

I'm just disgusted by this blatent effort to shove this crap down my
throat in spite of all my efforts to throw it out.

Personally, I wouldn't mind simply filtering ALL email with HTML tags
to be dumped to plain text in the mailbox.  That would save me a lot
of disk space when people send me these enormous messages with 12
different fonts and email wallpaper, gifs out the wazoo, etc..  I use
Mutt because I just want the info in the message.  Artistry is for web
pages for crying out loud!
Sorry if you disagree, but that's my $0.02.

Thanks all.

Lou
-- 
Louis LeBlanc               leblanc(_at_)keyslapper(_dot_)org
Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :)
http://www.keyslapper.org                     ԿԬ

You can not win the game, and you are not allowed to stop playing.
    -- The Third Law Of Thermodynamics

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