On 11/23/05, Craig White <craigwhite@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:21 -0800, Kam Leo wrote: > > > > > > On 11/23/05, V P <list307@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Aarrgh!!! I thought this was fixed. > > > > vjp > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: AntiSpam UOL <petsupermarket.sspam@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: 24-Nov-2005 10:02 > > Subject: RE: Re: Floppy Boot? > > To: list307 <list307@xxxxxxxxx> > > [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 > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. >
