RE: HTML-formatted mails to the list
- From: "Jason Merrique" <j.merrique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:20:19 +0100
Jim,
That just means your filter isn't configured properly. If it's a good
Bayesian filter, then you should be able to train it to tell the
difference between legit HTML email and spam/scam HTML email. Mine works
just fine.
Whether or not someone uses HTML email is up to them.
Having said that though, its bad etiquette to send HTML email to a
person, or group of people, who is/are likely to have a problem with it.
Though anyone who does so is more likely to be ignorant of the
difference between HTML and plain text, than maliciously trying to mess
up your spam filter.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Harrison [mailto:jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 02 April 2004 15:07
To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
Subject: [isalist] HTML-formatted mails to the list
http://www.ISAserver.org
I have a favor to ask of our esteemed (esteamed?) membership:
Please PLEEEEEEZE don't send mail to the list using HTML-formatting.
Someone is and their "overly-featureful" mail client is using the kind
of HTML-tag obfuscation that's popular with the phishers, spammers and
general jackasses out there.
Since I'm filtering on just such sequences, I'm dropping some mail from
this list, and probably missing some very impotant missives.
Unfortunately, my mail server can't apply a general "whitelist" to mail
from www.webelists.com (although I've requested it).
I don't care what you use to send to me personally (I only render plain
text anyway), but PLEEEEEEEEEZE stop sending to lists and newsgroups in
HTML...
T'anxQ!
Jim Harrison
MCP(NT4, W2K), A+, Network+, PCG
http://isaserver.org/Jim_Harrison/
http://isatools.org
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