Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:55:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: sig line
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
"lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ... how come if that link is HTML it could appear on the list?
A message isn't HTML just because it contains a URL such as
"http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/latin.html". Nor is it HTML because
the source code for the web page at that URL is in HTML.
A message in HTML looks something like the following.
This is one of tens of thousand of HTML spam emails I received before
I finally gave up and started filtering -- something that I had been
arguing against doing for years, but was finally forced into.
The only thing I've changed is to replace angle brackets <> with
braces {} so that my filters won't reject *this* message.
If anyone WANTS to see more messages such as the following, I have
several tens of thousands I can forward you. Most of them much longer
than this one, which I chose because it's short, fairly readable as
HTML messages go, and was addressed to WSFA.
{!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"}^J{HTML}{H=
EAD}{TITLE}{/TITLE}^J{META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-=
equiv=Content-Type}^J{META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATO=
R}{/HEAD}^J{BODY bgColor=#ffffff}{img src="http://report.trafficmagnet.n=
et/report/tr/get.php?referemail=^Jwsfa at keithlynch.net^J" width=1 height==
1 border=0}{FONT face=Arial size=2}^J{P}Hello,{BR}{/P}^J{P}I visited^J{A=
href=http://www.wsfa.org}www.wsfa.org{/A}^J{/A} and I^Jnoticed that you=
are not listed on some search engines. I am sure you can^Jincrease the =
number of people who visit^J{A href=http://www.wsfa.org}www.wsfa.org{/A}=
^J{/A}. Do you know TrafficMagnet? TrafficMagnet is a unique technology =
that instantly submits your^Jweb site to over 300,000+ search engines an=
d directories every month. This is a^Jvery low-cost and effective way of=
advertising your site. {/P}^J{P}To check our prices and submit^J{A href=
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go to {a target=_blank href="http://www.trafficmagnet.net/email.php?ref=
eremail=^Jwsfa at keithlynch.net^J"}TrafficMagnet.net{/A}{/P}^J{P}I would l=
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& Marketing{BR}{a target=_blank href="http://www.trafficmagnet.net/e=
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Keith F. Lynch - kfl at keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/
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