Re: [vps-mail] spam under the radar #2 - incoherent ramblings

[Godwin Stewart <gstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 08:16:44 -0400, Ed Woods <ewoods@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> why does the email contain incoherent ramblings at the end.  Does anyone 
> know what is happening?

It's a hashbuster.

BTW, at the risk of sounding pedantic, it would be great if people didn't
hijack threads.

Your 2 "spam under the radar" messages show up clearly as replies to Dennis
Pedini's "ASP to PHP" message, which itself shows up clearly as a reply to
LookAtSomethingCool's "/dev/null in virtusertable" message.

http://www.bonivet.net/misc/vpsmail-screenshot.png

Replying to someone else's message and just changing the Subject: header is
*NOT* sufficient to start a new thread. A mailer which *does* consider it to
be the beginning of a new thread isn't complying with Internet standards.

I don't run this list, so it definitely isn't up to me to make or enforce
any rules. I'm just stating a preference based on how Internet standards
work and on experience gained in many other mailing lists and newsgroups.
These "preferences" (which are not solely mine but shared by the majority of
people who participate in public areas I frequent) are summed up in this
"netiquette" document I drafted:

http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

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