SPUG: SPUG spam

[Tim Maher]

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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 23:49:51 -0700
To: Meryll Larkin <humbaba9 at yahoo.com>,
   Douglas Kirkland <dlkirkland at rhyton.com>, spug-list at pm.org
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Subject: Re: SPUG: SPUG Spam
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At 3:43 pm -0700 2002-04-08, Meryll Larkin wrote:
>4/8/02
>
>Hi Folks,
>
>I've been on this list for almost 4 years and I read
>just about every email.  I'll let you all know when
>I'm at the point that I understand half of it :-) ,
>but I have a very good memory and this much I do know:
>
>1.  ALL of you "list regulars" post in plain text, and
>ALMOST all of the spam has been posted either in a
>language other than English or in HTML (for the visual
>ad value).

I for one would be entirely in favor of simply filtering out all HTML 
messages.  (I personally find HTML email rather irritating, even when 
it's not spam.)

>
>2. SPUG doesn't sound like anything obscene, it sounds
>like a potato.

Meryll, you have an *obscenely* clean mind!  ;-)

-jason

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